Risk of confirmatory bias: Parafalcine meningioma mimicking acute subarachnoid haemorrhage

We present the case of a 44-year-old hypertensive lady with a history of headache and collapse whose initial CT demonstrated parafalcine hyperdensity. We attributed this to spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage, but subsequent imaging revealed an anterior parafalcine meningioma. Confirmatory bias may...

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Main Authors: Alhassan I.H. Mohmed, Ashwin Kumaria, Barrie White
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-09-01
Series:Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214751921000670