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===Ring-Enhancing Lesion=== | ===Ring-Enhancing Lesion=== | ||
====Common Mnemonic: <b>DR MAGIC</b>==== | |||
Common Mnemonic: <b>DR MAGIC</b> | *'''D'''emyelination | ||
* | *'''R'''adionecrosis/hematoma | ||
* | *'''M'''etastasis | ||
* | *'''A'''bscess (consider bacterial, fungal, parasitic) | ||
* | *'''G'''lioma (and other primary neoplasms such as lymphoma) | ||
* | *'''I'''nfarction | ||
* | *'''C'''ontusion | ||
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====HIV and ring-enhancing lesion(s)==== | ====HIV and ring-enhancing lesion(s)==== | ||
Revision as of 16:36, 3 October 2015
Ring-Enhancing Lesion
Common Mnemonic: DR MAGIC
- Demyelination
- Radionecrosis/hematoma
- Metastasis
- Abscess (consider bacterial, fungal, parasitic)
- Glioma (and other primary neoplasms such as lymphoma)
- Infarction
- Contusion
HIV and ring-enhancing lesion(s)
- Toxoplasmosis v. lymphoma (see comparison of characteristics at Radiopaedia.org.)
Neoplasm
- Primary brain tumor
- Primary CNS lymphoma
- Metastatic disease
Infectious
- Pyogenic Abscess
- Tuberculoma
- Toxoplasmosis
- Syphilis
- Neurocysticercosis
- Nocardiosis
- Cyptococcocus
- Aspergillosis
Neurologic
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Sarcoidosis
- Vasculitis
- Aneurysm
- Resolving hematoma
- Cerebral infarct
- Post-op changes