Carcinomatous encephalitis (miliary metastases): lack of contrast enhancement.
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Carcinomatous encephalitis is a rare form of brain metastasis in which there is diffuse miliary spread of punctate tumor nodules in a perivascular distribution. In this case, these tiny tumor nodules were seen throughout the cortical and basal gangliar gray matter only on T2-weighted images. Contrast-enhanced CT and T1-weighted MR images did not demonstrate these tumor nodules.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology
دوره 14 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1993