Teaching NeuroImages: brain mass with hilar adenopathy: the importance of histologic diagnosis

Neurology. 2014 May 6;82(18):e161-2. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000000393.

Abstract

A 30-year-old man presented with weeks of progressive headaches, imbalance, and aphasia. Brain MRI revealed an enhancing left frontal mass (figure 1, A and B). Chest imaging revealed mediastinal and hilar adenopathy (figure 1, C and D). Metastatic cancer was initially suspected, but pulmonary lymph node aspiration revealed sarcoidosis (figure 2A). Subsequent brain biopsy revealed glioblastoma (figure 2B).

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Brain Diseases / complications*
  • Brain Diseases / pathology
  • Humans
  • Lung / pathology
  • Lymph Nodes / pathology*
  • Lymphatic Diseases / complications*
  • Lymphatic Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male