J Korean Neurosurg Soc.
1983 Dec;12(4):695-701.
A Case of Nonspecific Inflammatory Disease Simulating a Malignant Glioma on Sequential Computerized Tomography
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- 1Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
- 2Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract
- Computerized tomography as a diagnostic procedure is characterized by its high sensitivity but limited specificity. This lack of specificity may result in erroneous diagnosis because many different pathological processes can have similar enhancement patterns. We prosent a patient with a nonspecific inflammatory lesion which was erroneously diagnosed as having an rapidly growing malignant glioma on sequential computerized tomography. We confirmed this lesion as a nonspecific inflammatory process by brain biopsy and the extensive lesion was disappeared after steroid therapy.
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