Weekly Image Challenge – August 6, 2023

What is the most likely diagnosis for this 50-year-old gentleman, with no co-morbid, who presented with headache, vomiting & vertigo?

  1. Metastasis
  2. Pilocytic astrocytoma
  3. Hemangioblastoma
  4. Ependymoma
  5. Medulloblastoma

Answer

Congratulations to those who selected hemangioblastoma. The enhancing mural nodule and non-enhancing cyst wall are characteristic features. Cyst walls of pilocytic astrocytoma often enhance, and it usually occurs at a younger age. Metastasis has rim enhancement.