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Atypical Virchow-Robin Spaces Mimicking Cystic Primary Brain Tumor – Clinical Report and Literature Review
| العنوان: | Atypical Virchow-Robin Spaces Mimicking Cystic Primary Brain Tumor – Clinical Report and Literature Review |
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| المؤلفون: | Helder Picarelli, Thales Bhering Nepomuceno, Yuri Casal, Vitor Nagai Yamaki, Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira, Eberval Gadelha Figueiredo |
| المصدر: | Brazilian Neurosurgery, Vol 39, Iss 04, Pp 311-316 (2020) |
| بيانات النشر: | Thieme Revinter Publicações Ltda., 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Surgery |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | virchow-robin space, enlarged perivascular space, atypical virchow-robin space, cystic brain tumor, Medicine, Surgery, RD1-811 |
| الوصف: | The Virchow-Robin spaces (VRSs), which are often incidentally observed in modern structural neuroimaging examinations, are small cystic cavities that usually surround the small arteries and arterioles at the level of basal ganglia, the anterior perforated substance and the thalamic-mesencephalic junction. Typically, they have similar physicochemical characteristics to cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) and there is no contrast enhancement on brain CT and MRI images. Its real meaning is unknown, although some contemporary studies have suggested that it might be related to certain traumatic brain injury or several other central nervous system (CNS) disorders, as degenerative diseases. Occasionally, some wide and atypical VRS may be mistaken for primary cystic brain tumors, especially in the context of large and symptomatic lesions, multiple clustered cysts, cortical lesions and if there is adjacent reactive gliosis. The present paper reports four patients who were affected by atypical VRS mimicking brain tumors that required imaging follow-up or even a biopsy to confirm the diagnosis or to indicate the correct approach. Although it is not so unusual, one of them occurred concomitantly and adjacent to a diffuse glioma (co-deleted 1p19q, WHO-GII). |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 0103-5355 2359-5922 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/0103-5355; https://doaj.org/toc/2359-5922 |
| DOI: | 10.1055/s-0040-1716562 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/8381229a9b984ba2afa3aca9953e2bb0 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.8381229a9b984ba2afa3aca9953e2bb0 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| تدمد: | 01035355 23595922 |
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| DOI: | 10.1055/s-0040-1716562 |