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An MRI of the brain and spine of an 11-year-old male revealed the following abnormality which is consistent with his chronic condition.
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Amino Acid Metabolism, Inborn Errors/diagnostic imaging , Brain/diagnostic imaging , Globus Pallidus/diagnostic imaging , Abnormalities, Multiple , Child , Humans , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , MaleABSTRACT
Lhermitte-Duclos disease (LDD) is a rare, benign, slow-growing, unilateral mass of the cerebellar cortex. Our case is that of a 71-year-old male with a superior cerebellar lesion consistent with LDD on imaging and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS). It has been reported that MRS can be a valuable diagnostic addition, as it allows for a non-invasive diagnosis and analysis to distinguish a benign lesion, such as an intraparenchymal lesion, and in our case, from a true neoplastic lesion.
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Cerebellar Neoplasms , Ganglioneuroma , Hamartoma Syndrome, Multiple , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy , Aged , Cerebellar Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging , Cerebellar Neoplasms/metabolism , Ganglioneuroma/diagnostic imaging , Ganglioneuroma/metabolism , Hamartoma Syndrome, Multiple/diagnostic imaging , Hamartoma Syndrome, Multiple/metabolism , Humans , MaleABSTRACT
The case presented is that of a 63-year-old female with an unusually large solitary calvarial plasmacytoma as an initial manifestation of a multiple myeloma. We were able to follow the progression of the disease clinically and with diagnostic imaging.