Intracranial dural metastatic prostate cancer can mimic meningioma: A report of two cases

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 391-394

  Chen, Tai Yuan ^a   Lee, Huey Jen ^b,c   Wu, Tai Ching ^a   Tsui, Yu Kun ^a   Wu, Te Chang ^a  

^a CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey   (United States)

^c RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Meningioma; Metastatic cancer; Prostate carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CEREBRAL METASTASIS; MENINGIOMAS; METASTATIC CANCER; METASTATIC LESIONS; NEURO-IMAGING; PROSTATE CANCERS; PROSTATE CARCINOMA;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; RESONANCE;

DISEASES;

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEPSIS; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DURA MATER; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80051970518     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: 18734499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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