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Department of Radiology
Seth G.S. Medical College and K.E.M. Hospital, Mumbai , India
Case of the Day
Case of the Day
A 40 year old woman came with complaints of altered sensorium since three days.
A 40 year old woman came with complaints of altered sensorium since three days.
There is a large, well defined, lobulated, heterogeneously enhancing hypodense lesion with few calcific foci in the sellar and suprasellar regions. The lesion obstructs the foramen of Monro giving rise to dilatation of the lateral ventricles with periventricular ooze. The lesion has an anterior hemorrhagic component and a posterior cystic component.
There is a large, well defined, lobulated, heterogeneously enhancing hypodense lesion with few calcific foci in the sellar and suprasellar regions. The lesion obstructs the foramen of Monro giving rise to dilatation of the lateral ventricles with periventricular ooze. The lesion has an anterior hemorrhagic component and a posterior cystic component.
The foramen of Monro is named after the Scottish physician Alexander Monro (1733-1817), who first described it in 1783
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