Letter to the editor. Face-off between glioma and meningioma

Abstract

Gliomas are malignant, and intrinsic cerebral tumours may cause tumour-infiltrative oedema. Meningiomas are mostly benign, extrinsic cerebral tumours that do not infiltrate the surrounding parenchyma. Meningiomas may give rise to vasogenic oedema in the peritumoral tissue.[1] The radiological diagnosis of cerebral tumours may be non-conclusive on conventional MRI in few cases, and diagnosis must rely on histopathological analysis. [2] We report a case that has an atypical clinical presentation with nonconclusive MRI brain, and finally, histopathology confirmed the diagnosis.

Keywords

• angiomatous meningioma
• meningioma mimicking glioma
• meningioma versus glioma
• glioblastoma MRI
• meningioma MRI