More than meets the MRI: case report of a carcinoid tumour metastasis mimicking a meningioma

Conrad J Harrison; Sean C Martin; Monika Hofer; Rufus Corkill; D Sanjeeva Jeyaretna; Stewart J Griffiths

doi:10.1080/02688697.2017.1327018

More than meets the MRI: case report of a carcinoid tumour metastasis mimicking a meningioma

Br J Neurosurg. 2019 Apr;33(2):229-230. doi: 10.1080/02688697.2017.1327018. Epub 2017 May 11.

Authors

Conrad J Harrison¹, Sean C Martin^{2

3}, Monika Hofer⁴, Rufus Corkill⁵, D Sanjeeva Jeyaretna², Stewart J Griffiths²

Affiliations

¹ a University of Oxford Medical Sciences Office , Oxford , UK.
² b Department of Neurological Surgery , John Radcliffe Hospital , Oxford , UK.
³ c Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences , University of Oxford , Oxford , UK.
⁴ d Department of Neuropathology , John Radcliffe Hospital , Oxford , UK.
⁵ e Department of Neuroradiology , John Radcliffe Hospital , Oxford , UK.

PMID: 28490268
DOI: 10.1080/02688697.2017.1327018

Abstract

Cerebral metastases from carcinoid tumours are rarely reported and confer a much poorer prognosis than carcinoid metastases elsewhere in the body. We describe a case of carcinoid brain metastasis closely resembling a meningioma on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and review current treatment options.

Keywords: Carcinoid; brain; meningioma; metastasis; neuroendocrine tumour.

Publication types

Case Reports
Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

Aged
Brain Neoplasms / secondary*
Carcinoid Tumor*
Diagnosis, Differential
Frontal Lobe
Humans
Incidental Findings
Lung Neoplasms*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Meningeal Neoplasms / pathology*
Meningioma / pathology*