Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Hemorrhagic dural and parenchymal metastases : BRAIN


The patient is an elderly female, suspected case of Lung Cancer, presented with altered sensorium.


T1 and T2 images, showed T1 hyperintense and T2 heterogeneously hyperintense dural bases lesion. Left front-parietal vasogenic oedema is noted.














The causes of hemorrhagic brain metastases include : 
Melanoma, Breast Ca, Choriocarcinoma, Bronchogenic Carcinoma, Thyroid Ca and Renal Cell Carcinoma.


The following are are post contrast images, which showed numerous lesions in addition to the larger lesions, which are not discernible in the pre contrast images.










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