Inflammatory demyelinating disease mimicking malignant glioma.
- Authors
- Type
- Published Article
- Journal
- Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 2003
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 565–569
- Identifiers
- PMID: 12679401
- Source
- Medline
- License
- Unknown
Abstract
Such cases illustrate the importance of considering a demyelinating lesion in the differential diagnosis of a mass lesion. The difficulties encountered in establishing the correct diagnosis of inflammatory disease are related to the variations in the radiologic appearance, which require exclusion of gliomas or other brain tumors by surgical biopsy before the therapeutic strategy can be selected.
