Abdel-Aal Ahmed K, Hamed Maysoon F, Al Naief Nasser S, Vattoth Surjith, Bag Asim
Department of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), AL, USA.
J Radiol Case Rep. 2012 Aug;6(8):8-16. doi: 10.3941/jrcr.v6i8.999. Epub 2012 Aug 1.
We report a case of a large, heterogeneously enhancing, pathologically proven, supratentorial subependymoma in a 31-year-old male patient presenting with headache, nausea and vomiting as well as gait disturbances. Although most supratentorial subependymomas have distinctive MR features, our case demonstrated imaging findings that made it indistinguishable from other more aggressive malignant supratentorial intraventricular lesions. It is of paramount importance to consider supratentorial subependymomas in the differential diagnosis of supratentorial lesions, even if their radiological features were atypical.
我们报告一例31岁男性患者,患有经病理证实的幕上室管膜下瘤,肿瘤较大,强化不均匀,患者表现为头痛、恶心、呕吐以及步态障碍。尽管大多数幕上室管膜下瘤具有独特的磁共振成像(MR)特征,但我们这个病例的影像学表现使其与其他更具侵袭性的幕上脑室内恶性病变难以区分。即使幕上室管膜下瘤的放射学特征不典型,在幕上病变的鉴别诊断中考虑到它们也至关重要。