Epidermoid cyst - cerebellopontine angle

Case contributed by Frank Gaillard , 23 May 2010
Diagnosis almost certain
Changed by Frank Gaillard, 8 Oct 2015

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Characteristic appearance of an epidermoid cyst in the cerebellopontine angle. The lesion has similar signal intensity to CSF on both T1 and T2 weighted sequences, but is 'dirty' on FLAIR. The diagnosis is confirmed on DWI which demonstrates very bright signal. 

  • -<p>Characteristic appearance of an&#160;<a href="/articles/epidermoid-cyst-cns" title="CNS epidermoid cyst">epidermoid cyst</a> in the <a href="/articles/cerebellopontine_angle" title="Cerebellopontine angle mass">cerebellopontine angle</a>. The lesion has similar signal intensity to CSF on both T1 and T2 weighted sequences, but is 'dirty' on FLAIR. The diagnosis is confirmed on DWI which demonstrates very bright signal.&#160;</p>
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Characteristic appearance of an epidermoid cyst in the cerebellopontine angle. The lesion has similar signal intensity to CSF on both T1 and T2 weighted sequences, but is 'dirty' on FLAIR. The diagnosis is confirmed on DWI which demonstrates very bright signal. 

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Image MRI (ADC) ( update )

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Epidermoid cyst : ADC
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Image MRI (DWI) ( update )

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Epidermoid cyst : DWI
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Image MRI (T1 C+) ( update )

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Epidermoid cyst : T1 Gad
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Epidermoid cyst : GRE
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Image MRI (FLAIR) ( update )

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Epidermoid cyst : FLAIR
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Image MRI (T1) ( update )

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Epidermoid cyst : T1
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Epidermoid cyst : T2
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