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Case: T2 FLAIR Mismatch Sign, Astrocytoma – 31 y/o Female

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So here is a 31-year-old female

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presenting with headaches.

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And the MRI shows a rather well-defined

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mass in the right medial temporal lobe.

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And you can see that the tumor is

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kind of homogeneously bright,

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very well-defined on T2 two weighted images.

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But more importantly is majority of the tumor is

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dark in the central part on the FLAIR images,

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except this thin peripheral bright

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rim on the FLAIR images.

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And this is what we call a T2 FLAIR mismatch sign.

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And typically, these tumors also do not

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show any enhancement.

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As you can see,

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there is no enhancement

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on the post-contrast images.

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And majority of these tumors also show very

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facilitated diffusion in this

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central portion of the tumor,

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which is almost gelatinous

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and very soft on surgery.

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Neurosurgeons will classically

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tell you that these are

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gelatinous soft tumors,

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which are very easy to resect.

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And this is what we have described

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as the T2 FLAIR mismatch sign.

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A classic example in a younger patient.

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And once we see this sign,

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we know that this tumor is going to be IDH-mutated

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non-codeleted astrocytoma.

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And this is one example over here.

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Faculty

Rajan Jain, MD

Professor of Radiology and Neurosurgery

New York University Grossman School of Medicine

Tags

Oncologic Imaging

Neuroradiology

Neoplastic

MRI

Brain

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