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Here is an example of an IDH mutated glioma

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in a patient, 28-year-old male,

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presenting with headaches and otherwise clinically intact.

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You can see that MRI shows a very large

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tumor involving the frontal lobe.

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It's actually extending across the midline by the volatile

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frontal lobe involvement,

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with hardly any edema

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around this very well-defined mass,

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which shows some heterogenous fatty enhancement

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within the tumor, and more importantly,

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if you look at the CT scan done a day earlier,

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it actually shows you that this tumor

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has some areas of calcification,

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which in fact could also be confirmed on

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the susceptibility weighted imaging.

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All our brain tumor patients

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also undergo susceptibility weighted imaging sequences,

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and you can see these tumors

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are mutated gliomas.

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They might show areas of hemorrhage

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as this one is showing,

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but also some of these susceptibility blooming signal,

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which we are seeing,

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is also related to calcification.

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As you can see, some of these areas are dark on

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phase imaging right over here,

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which kind of corresponds to the calcification

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we saw on the CT scan.

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So, you know, these tumors,

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they could be calcified,

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and once we see the calcification in a tumor,

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which looks like that, in the frontal lobe in a young patient,

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you can suggest a diagnosis of an oligodendroglioma,

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which this turned out.