brain metastasis - DocNeuro

Case: PRES or mets?

Naoum P. Issa MD PhD — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 18:46:53 +0000

Case history: 55 year old female with history of lung adenocarcinoma presents with difficulty seeing. She was treated with carboplatin and paclitaxil two months prior to admission. CT head showed hypodensities in bilateral posterior white matter, as shown below. What is your diagnosis? Initial interpretation based on posterior hypodensity was like PRES (Posterior Reversible […]

The post Case: PRES or mets? first appeared on DocNeuro.

The post Case: PRES or mets? appeared first on DocNeuro.

Radiation Necrosis

Christopher Buckle MD — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:57:06 +0000

Radiotherapy is commonly used as an adjuvant therapy to surgery and chemotherapy in the management of primary brain neoplasms. Radiation destroys cells and damages the tumor blood supply. Addition of radiation therapy to surgery has been shown to improve GBM survival from 3-7 to 7-12 months. Diagnosis: Radiation necrosis Figure 1: axial (a) and sagittal […]

The post Radiation Necrosis first appeared on DocNeuro.

The post Radiation Necrosis appeared first on DocNeuro.

Posterior Fossa Metastasis

Christopher Buckle MD — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 01:51:16 +0000

The differential diagnosis for an intra-axial posterior fossa mass depends on the age of the patient. The most common causes are juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma, medulloblastoma and ependymoma in a child and metastasis and hemangioblastoma in an adult, with the former being much more common. Be sure to exclude complications of posterior fossa masses in all […]

The post Posterior Fossa Metastasis first appeared on DocNeuro.

The post Posterior Fossa Metastasis appeared first on DocNeuro.