Obligatory medical device diagnostics.
- Computed tomography of the skull (cranial CT or cCT) with intravenous contrast agent – due topropensity for calcification or bone infiltration.
- Magnetic resonance imaging of the skull (cranial MRI or cMRI) with intravenous contrast agent [gold standard].
- Advantage: MRI has the greatest soft tissue contrast.
Optional medical device diagnostics – depending on the results of the history, physical examination, laboratory diagnostics and obligatory medical device diagnostics – for differential diagnostic clarification.
- Angiography (imaging of blood vessels by contrast medium in an X-ray examination) – reveals which blood vessels are associated with the tumor and whether blood flow is restricted
