Abstract
Cerebral metastases from any malignancy, including prostate carcinoma, may present
as a meningeal mass, and differentiating the lesion from a meningioma can be challenging.
We report the clinical and neuroimaging features of two patients with dural metastases
from prostate carcinoma and discuss differentiation of metastatic lesions from meningioma.
In both patients, it appeared that the prostate carcinoma had been successfully treated,
and neither patient was found to have any other metastases at the time of diagnosis
of the dural lesions.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: February 22, 2011
Accepted:
December 26,
2010
Received:
December 1,
2010
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© 2011 Elsevier Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
