Very late frontal relapse of medulloblastoma mimicking a meningioma in an adult: Usefulness of 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy and diffusion-perfusion magnetic resonance imaging for preoperative diagnosis: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Jouanneau, Emmanuel ^a,c   Guzman, Rafael Alfonso ^a   Desuzinges, Claude ^b   Frappaz, Didier ^b   Louis Tisserand, Guy ^a   Sunyach, Marie Pierre ^b   Jouvet, Anne ^a   Sindou, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b CENTRE LÉON BÉRARD   (France)

^c HÔPITAL NEUROLOGIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Brain tumors; Long term relapse; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Medulloblastoma; Oncology; Perfusion magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; CHOLINE; CREATINE; ETOPOSIDE; INOSITOL; METHOTREXATE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; AMINO ACID; PROTON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENINGIOMA; METASTASIS; NEUROIMAGING; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TISSUE METABOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION STUDY; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; MICROSURGERY; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEUROSURGERY; NOTE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; TUMOR BIOPSY; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECURRENT DISEASE;

CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROTONS; RECURRENCE;

EID: 33645754270     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000204878.10591.71     Document Type: Article

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