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G Model CLINEU-2086; No. of Pages 4 ARTICLE IN PRESS Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery xxx (2009) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery j o u rn al h omepage: w w w. elsev /locate/clineuro Case report High-grade dural arteriovenous fistula simulating a bilateral thalamic neoplasm Patrick A. Sugrue a,∗ , Michael C. Hurley b , Bernard R. Bendok a , Daniel L. Surdell a , Numa Gottardi-Littell c , Stephen F. Futterer b , Kenji Muro a , H. Hunt Batjer a a Department of Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States b Department of Radiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States c Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Dural arteriovenous fistulae (dAVF) provide a diagnostic challenge and must be part of a broad differen- Received 15 January 2009 tial in pursuit of a difficult diagnosis or unusual presentation. This case report demonstrates an initially Received in revised form 30 April 2009 misguided diagnosis of bilateral thalamic neoplasm and demonstrates the importance of continued pur- Accepted 2 May 2009 suit until the correct diagnosis is obtained. Moreover, to our knowledge, this is the first reported case of a dAVF simulating a bilateral thalamic neoplasm. We present a patient with a provisional diagnosis Keywords: