Tumefactive Demyelinating Lesion Mimicking Glioma

Kim, Young-Do; Choi, Eu-Jene; Chung, Sung-Woo; Kim, Tae-Won; Maeng, Lee-So

J Mult Scler > Volume 7(1); 2016 > Article

Case Report

Journal of Multiple Sclerosis 2016;7(1):14-17.
Published online March 1, 2016.

신경아교종과 유사한 탈수초성 질환

김영도¹, 최유진¹, 정성우¹, 김태원¹, 맹이소²

^¹가톨릭대학교 인천성모병원 신경과
^²가톨릭대학교 인천성모병원 병리과

Tumefactive Demyelinating Lesion Mimicking Glioma

Young-Do Kim¹, Eu-Jene Choi¹, Sung-Woo Chung¹, Tae-Won Kim¹, Lee-So Maeng²

¹Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Incheon, Korea
²Hospital Pathology, College of Medicine, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Incheon, Korea

Abstract

"A 43-year-old male presented with right side clumsiness for 7 days. Brain magnetic resonance imaging showed a large ring lesion with gadolinium enhancement in the left parietal lobe, suspicious forbrain tumor. We recognized through brain biopsy that it would not be a brain tumor but a tumefactivedemyelinating lesion. Our report of the clinical, radiological and pathological features of a tumefactivedemyelinating lesion reemphasize that such a demyelinating process should also be consideredin the differential diagnosis of tumor-like brain lesions. Journal of Multiple Sclerosis 7(1):14-17, 2016"

Key Words: Tumefactive, Demyelination, Brain tumor