Meningeal melanocytoma is a kind of extremely rare pigmented tumor of the central nervous system, which often occurs in the groove around the base of the brain and spinal pia mater. Age of onset is 40 to 50 years old, mostly presenting a benign course of disease and the prognosis is good. Case reports of partial invasion or metastasis from lesions are even rarer. This report described a case of...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Contrast-enhanced fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) imaging has been reported to have higher sensitivity for detecting leptomeningeal disease compared with contrast-enhanced T1-weighted MR imaging. The purpose of this study was to compare contrast-enhanced T1-weighted MR images with fat suppression to contrast-enhanced FLAIR images to determine which sequence wa...

Published accounts of tuberculous meningitis usually include intracranial tumour in the differential diagnosis. However, the two conditions are only likely to be confused when tuberculous meningitis is complicated by a tuberculoma or when there is diffuse infiltration of the subarachnoid space by malignant cells. As the latter causes an increase in both the cell and protein content of the cereb...

To cite: Woodley-Cook J, Bharatha A, Spears J. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2013203296 DESCRIPTION A 63-year-old woman presented to her general practitioner with progressive cognitive impairment and chronic headache. MRI of her brain demonstrated bilateral extra-axial enhancing frontal lobe masses of similar morphology and enhancement pattern (w...