Dural tail sign positive tumors: Points to make a differential diagnosis

Jeong Taek Yoon; Kyung Mi Lee; Kiyong Na

doi:10.1016/j.radcr.2023.10.054

Dural tail sign positive tumors: Points to make a differential diagnosis

Radiol Case Rep. 2023 Dec 4;19(2):773-779. doi: 10.1016/j.radcr.2023.10.054. eCollection 2024 Feb.

Authors

Jeong Taek Yoon¹, Kyung Mi Lee², Kiyong Na³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Graduate School, Kyung Hee University, #23 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 02447, Republic of Korea.
² Department of Radiology, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University Hospital, #23 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02447, Republic of Korea.
³ Department of Pathology, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University Hospital, #23 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02447, Republic of Korea.

Abstract

Representative patients were treated with total surgical mass resection, and each tumor was histopathologically confirmed to have a secretory meningioma, intradural metastasis of gynecologic origin, and dural metastasis of lung origin. The imaging findings of these patients were inconclusive in differentiating meningioma from metastasis; hence, advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques were considered. Based on these reports, we studied how to differentiate typical meningiomas from atypical and malignant meningiomas and other dura-based malignant tumors using conventional computed tomography and MRI.

Keywords: Atypical meningioma; Differential diagnosis; Dural metastasis; Dural tail sign; Meningioma.

Publication types

Case Reports