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Metastatic Melanoma - Case 1

A 47 year old woman with a known primary melanoma presented with headaches and a mild left hemiparesis.

Show the Gadolinium Enhancing Lesions

Axial MRI images: T1 weighted with gadolinium. Note the multiple nodular masses near the grey white junction which enhance with gadolinium. Biopsy confirmed metastatic melanoma. This radiolographic picture is very similar to multiple abscesses.


Revised 05/15/06.
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