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    Headache, dizziness and weak left limbs for 1 week, you need to be alert when encountering cystic lesions

    • Last Update: 2022-01-09
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    Can you make a decision within 3 seconds? Male, 55 years old
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    Headache, dizziness and weakness of left limb for 1 week
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    No history of fever and epilepsy
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    Look at the image below, can you analyze it? ---Answer dividing line---Are you sure you want to see the answer? ▌ Clinical image analysis CT and CT enhancement (Figure A, Figure B) showed that most of the small cystic lesions in the right temporal lobe, with mild enhancement of the cyst wall, and cysticercosis infection was initially considered in the clinic
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    One month later, MRI was performed.
    T1WI (Figure C) showed enhancement of the cyst wall with enhancement of mural nodules, excluding the diagnosis of cysticercosis as a brain metastasis
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    ▌ Imaging diagnosis of brain metastases
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     ▌ Discussion points.
    For older patients who show cystic lesions on plain scan, which may be cysticercosis, if the cyst is not very smooth, you should be highly alert to the possibility of metastasis.
    Enhanced scanning of the cyst wall can confirm the diagnosis
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    Most brain metastases have imaging changes of necrotic cysts
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    References: [1]Narita Y, Sato S, Kayama T.
    Review of the diagnosis and treatment of brain metastases[J].
    Jpn J Clin Oncol.
    2021 Nov 2:hyab182.
    doi: 10.
    1093/jjco/hyab182.
    Epub ahead of print.
    PMID: 34865060.
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