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Sellar Mass
PC or MAC
- pituitary adenoma
- craniopharyngioma
- met/meningioma
- aneurysm
- cyst - Rathke cleft
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Suprasellar Mass
SATCHMOE
- sarcoid
- aneurysm
- teratoma/germinoma
- craniopharyngioma
- hamartoma of tuber cinereum
- met/meningioma
- optic glioma
- epidermoid/dermoid/eosinophilic granuloma
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Parasellar Mass
MCAT
- metastasis/meningioma
- carotid-cavernous fistula
- aneurysm
- trigeminal schwannoma/tolosa hunt
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Infundibular Mass
MEet GIRLS
- metastasis
- eosinophilic granuloma
- germ cell tumor/germinoma
- infection/inflammation (hypophysitis)
- duRal based lesion
- lymphoma
- sarcoid
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Pineal Mass
MAD PIG
- meningioma/met
- aneurysm, AVM, arachnoid cyst
- dermoid/teratoma
- pineal parenchymal-based lesion
- pIneal cyst
- germ cell tumor/glioma
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Ring-enhancing lesion (Neuro)
MAGIC DR
- immunocompetent:
- met
- abscess
- glioma
- infarct
- contusion
- demyelination (MS)
- radiation necrosis
- immunocompromised:
- toxo or lymphoma
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Spine: Intradural Intramedullary
AHEM MIGHT I help you
- astrocytoma
- hemangioblastoma
- epidermoid
- mets
- ms
- infection/myelitis
- granulomatous (sarcoid)
- hemorrhage
- trauma
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Intradural Extramedullary
DAMN Vascular Hematoma
- Dural mets
- AVM/arachnoid cyst
- Meningioma
- NF/Schwannoma
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Extradural Extramedullary
SMALL HEAD
- synovial cyst
- mets/meningioma/schwannoma
- AVM
- lymphoma
- leukemia
- hematoma
- epidural abscess
- adenopathy
- disk - bulge, herniation, free fragment
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Temporal Lobe Lesion
TIV
- Tumor: ganglioglioma
- Infection/Inflammation: herpes
- Vascular: transverse sinus thrombosis/infarct
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