Mother in law sign
The mother in law sign is perhaps uncharitably (depends on the mother in law I suppose) used to describe lesions that enhance early during the arterial phase and remain opacified well after the venous phase. The joke is that a mother in law comes early and stays late.
It is most frequently equated with the angiographic appearance of a meningioma.
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Dural masses
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dural masses
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meningioma
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- hemangiopericytoma
- solitary fibrous tumor of the dura
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