Fig 1.

46-year-old woman with a gradually enlarging mass on her forehead. Noncontrast axial T1-weighted MR image (A) reveals a well-circumscribed mass, measuring 3 × 4 × 6 cm in the right frontal bone with intra- and extracranial extension. The lesion is well defined, and the signal intensity is of mixed intensity with some central hyperintensity and bone destruction. T2-weighted image (B) shows a lesion of high signal intensity with central areas of hypointensity. The lesion is well demarcated from the galea extracranially (outer uniform dark line) and the underlying dura intracranially (inner dark line). There is no surrounding edema. After gadopentetate dimeglumine administration (C), strong and homogeneous enhancement of the mass, relative enhancement of the bone marrow, and a dural tail sign are observed. The lesion extends intracranially and appears to compress the underlying brain, but without intraparenchymal extension. On the inner table in the parietal area, the small enhancing nodule corresponds to a vessel.