Meningioma

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  • Patient presented initially presented with headache and proptosis.
  • CT showed mixed hyperostosis and luceny of the right sphenoid bone.
  • MRI showed enhancing soft tissue in the middle cranial fossa, temporal fossa, and orbit (causing proptosis).

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  • 60-year-old patient had an MRI following trauma.
  • A incidental enhancing dural lesion lesion involving the cavernous sinus (and Meckel's cave) was consistent with a meningioma.

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  • 50-year-old patient presented with headache.
  • MRI showed an avidly enhancing lesion containing trace amounts of calcium arising from the anterior skull base.
  • The ipsilateral frontal sinus was asymetrically enlarged - representing pneumosinus dilatans.

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  • 55-year-old patient presented with a progresively worsening headache.
  • MRI showed a large avidly enahncing lesion occluding the superior sagittal sinus and eroding into the skull.
  • Final histopathology revealed an atypical meningioma that was treated with radiotherapy following resection.