I saw an interesting case of patient with a brain mass lesion this week. The patient came into the hospital presenting with numbness in left arm and lack of coordination. The patient first had a CT, which showed a suspected 1.8 cm mass lesion at right frontal parietal lobe. Then an MRI was ordered, with and without contrast, which confirmed the mass lesion seen on CT. The patient has a history of renal cell carcinoma that was removed 13 months ago. The patients new symptoms confirmed brain metastasis. The patient was then scheduled for MRI Brain lab and taken to surgery the following day. The patient had a right frontoparietal craniotomy with gross total resection of the mass. The patient is scheduled to follow-up with radiation.
The above MRI images are examples of a brain mass lesion. For more information on mass lesion's you can go to: www.residentandstaff.com/.
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