Abstract
Primary fourth ventricular meningiomas are extremely rare and often misdiagnosed as
other tumors. They have no characteristic imaging appearance on computed tomography
and magnetic resonance imaging. Therefore, differentiating the lesion from common
lesions in the fourth ventricle can be diagnostically challenging. In this report,
we present a 25-year-old man with fourth ventricular meningioma and refer to the usefulness
of diffusion-weighted imaging and apparent diffusion coefficient measurements for
the differential diagnosis of fourth ventricular tumors.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: February 13, 2012
Accepted:
November 30,
2011
Received in revised form:
November 7,
2011
Received:
September 26,
2011
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