| Literature DB >> 28979633 |
Farida Abdoulkader1, Kaoutar Aammou1, Abdellatif Siwane1, Fatiha Essodegui1.
Abstract
Aneurysmal bone cyst is a benign tumor that can affect all bones in the body. It rarely affects the base of the skull. It is usually located at the level of the long bones. We report the clinical case of a 44-year old man treated for a mass in the basisphenoid wrongly diagnosed as invasive prolactin-producing macroadenoma for which he was put under dopamine agonists over a period of 9 months. We adjusted the diagnosis by suggesting aneurysmal bone cyst in the sphenoid bone on the basis of its almost pathognomonic radiological aspect on MRI.Entities:
Keywords: Bone cyst; aneurysmal; base of the skull; magnetic resonance imaging; sphenoid bone
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28979633 PMCID: PMC5622812 DOI: 10.11604/pamj.2017.27.231.12154
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Pan Afr Med J
Figure 1IRM coupe sagittale pondérée en T1 montrant un processus lésionnel solido-kystique centré sur le corps du sphénoïde fait de multiples logettes kystiques en hypersignal spontané avec niveaux
Figure 2Coupe axiale pondérée en T2 montrant l'hypersignal T2 intermédiaire déclive de la lésion kystique; la tige pituitaire est refoulée vers le haut et l'avant
Figure 3Coupe sagittale pondérée en T1 après injection de gadolinium: on ne note pas de rehaussement de la portion solide ou des septas intra lésionnels