Primary fourth ventricular meningioma: a case report of an adult male.
Primary fourth ventricular meningiomas are extremely rare and often misdiagnosed as other tumors. They have no characteristic imaging appearance on computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. Therefore, differentiating the lesion from common lesions in the fourth ventricle can be diagnostically challenging. In this report, we present a 25-year-old man with fourth ventricular meningioma and refer to the usefulness of diffusion-weighted imaging and apparent diffusion coefficient measurements for the differential diagnosis of fourth ventricular tumors.
Division of Radiology, Department of Pathophysiological and Therapeutic Science, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Yonago, Tottori, Japan.
Ying
Y
Qin
Yoshiko
Y
Kanasaki
Marie
M
Takasugi
Yuki
Y
Shinohara
Toshio
T
Kaminou
Masamichi
M
Kurosaki
Toshihide
T
Ogawa
D000328:Adult; D038524:Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D020546:Fourth Ventricle / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D008579:Meningioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D035583:Rare Diseases; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome