Open AccessExtradural autologous temporal muscle graft mimicking a meningioma
Author(s) -
Mihaela Dana Turliuc,
Claudia Florida Costea,
Irina Elena Balan,
B. Costăchescu,
Bogdan Dobrovăț,
Şerban Turliuc,
Cristina Mihaela Ghiciuc,
R. Arbore-Sorete,
Vlad Hartie,
F. Sima,
Andrei Ionuț Cucu
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
romanian neurosurgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2344-4959
pISSN - 1220-8841
DOI - 10.33962/roneuro-2019-062
Subject(s) - medicine , hematoma , lesion , meningioma , neurosurgery , mass/lesion , surgery , radiology , neuroimaging , psychiatry
Meningiomas are the most common dural tumour, but there are also many other dural masses which mimic their appearances, such as neoplastic and non-neoplastic lesions. In this paper we report another mass which may mimic a dural lesion, namely a muscle graft harvested from the temporal site and left in situ, used to achieve haemostasis in a posttraumatic temporal extradural hematoma in a young male patient. Solid knowledge of differentiating neuroimaging characteristics of dural masses, as well as its corroboration with the patient’s medical history are extremely helpful in establishing an accurate diagnostic.