What Are Axial Lesions

1.1. Extra-axial tumors are lesions, neoplastic and not, which are external to the brain parenchyma and can originate in the skull, meninges, cranial nerves, and brain appendages such as the pituitary gland.

What does extra-axial space mean?

Extra-axial collections are collections of fluid within the skull, but outside the brain parenchyma. They may be comprised of CSF, blood or pus and may exist in the extradural, subdural or subarachnoid space.

What is CSF cleft?

The CSF cleft sign in neuroimaging can be used to distinguish an extra-axial lesion from an intra-axial lesion and is typically used in the description of a meningioma. Classically, the cleft was regarded as representing a thin rim of CSF between a tumor and brain parenchyma.

Alexander Ross

Alexander Ross

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