title: Cyst with a mural nodule tumor of the brain.
abstract: The purpose of this article is to illustrate the imaging findings of lesions that present as cyst with a mural nodule tumor (CMNT). CMNT is a subtype pattern of intra-axial enhancement in central nervous system tumors, typical of a variety of brain neoplasms, including, as the most common, hemangioblastoma, pilocytic astrocytoma, ganglioglioma and pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma and as less common tanycytic ependymoma, intraparenchymal schwannoma, desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma and cystic metastasis. A retrospective design was chosen given the rarity of CMNT. Relevant cases were obtained retrospectively to review the different lesions that can present with the appearance of CMNT.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, 660 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA. eytan.raz@gmail.com
authors.forename: Eytan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Raz
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zagzag
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Saba
authors.forename: Lorenzo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mannelli
authors.forename: Pier Luigi
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Di Paolo
authors.forename: Ferdinando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: D'Ambrosio
authors.forename: Edmond
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Knopp
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000473:pathology; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003560:Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D018325:Hemangioblastoma / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies