PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Emily Spence
AU  - Ramesh Chelvarajah
AU  - Colin Shieff
TI  - Haemangiopericytoma with no dural attachment
AID  - 10.1136/bcr.11.2011.5179
DP  - 2012 Jan 19
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - bcr1120115179
VI  - 2012
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2012/bcr.11.2011.5179.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2012/bcr.11.2011.5179.full
AB  - The authors describe a case of a gentleman in his 40s who presented with a space-occupying lesion in the right precentral gyrus which showed no dural attachment and was well circumscribed, both on imaging and at surgery. This lesion was histologically challenging to diagnose but favoured to be a haemangiopericytoma. The lack of dural attachment is unusual for this tumour type but is typically associated with metastases to the brain, and less commonly a solid primary central nervous system tumour. The authors propose that haemangiopericytoma should be regularly considered as a differential diagnosis of cerebral metastases so that inadequate preoperative anticipation and planning is not encountered.