Case report: pseudotumoral brain lesion as the presenting feature of sarcoidosis

Br J Radiol. 1996 Mar;69(819):272-5. doi: 10.1259/0007-1285-69-819-272.

Abstract

Sarcoidosis rarely presents as an intracranial mass lesion. We report the case of a patient presenting a disturbance of cognitive functions in whom CT and MRI demonstrated a large right fronto-temporal mass lesion with contrast enhancement and surrounding marked oedema, highly suggestive of a brain tumour. The diagnosis of neurosarcoidosis was made after stereotactic biopsy of the lesion.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Biopsy
  • Brain Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Brain Diseases / pathology
  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Frontal Lobe / pathology
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Middle Aged
  • Sarcoidosis / diagnosis*
  • Stereotaxic Techniques
  • Temporal Lobe / pathology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed