Abstract
The differential of a newly discovered solitary intracranial mass is a primary intracranial neoplasm and metastatic disease. Differentiating between the two entities on imaging is difficult, though there are clues on conventional imaging that suggest one over the other. The purpose of this article is to describe a new imaging finding on T2-weighted imaging, the “pool sign,” that may be specific for metastatic adenocarcinomas and can help differentiate a solitary metastasis from a primary CNS neoplasm. We present a series of four patients with initial magnetic resonance imaging of a solitary intracranial mass demonstrating the “pool sign,” and therefore predicted to be metastatic adenocarcinoma. All of these cases were confirmed to be metastatic adenocarcinoma on pathology.
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Bhatt, A.A., Lin, E.P. & Almast, J. The “pool sign” of metastatic adenocarcinoma. Neuroradiology 60, 983–985 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00234-018-2069-2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00234-018-2069-2