Objective. It has been stated that brain cancers are an increasingly serious issue in many parts of the world. The aim of our study was to determine a possible relationship between Vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene polymorphisms and the risk of glioma and meningioma. Methods. We investigated the VDR Taq-I and VDR Fok-I gene polymorphisms in 100 brain cancer patients (including 44 meningioma cases a...

BACKGROUND Cervical lymph node metastases of meningioma represent an important diagnostic and treatment challenge. Not only has this entity been rarely described, but successful treatment has never been reported in the literature. METHODS AND RESULTS This case report was conducted using reviews of the literature. A 58-year-old man with a history of resected anaplastic meningioma was referred ...

INTRODUCTION The co-existence of pituitary adenoma and meningioma is extremely rare. It is even rarer in patients with no previous known risk factors for either tumour. Here, we present a case of synchronous non-functioning pituitary adenoma with suprasellar and olfactory groove meningiomas in a patient without previous irradiation. METHODS The tumours were diagnosed on MRI in the 65-year-old...

PM-11. DEVELOPMENT OF A HUMAN MENINGIOMA MOUSE XENOGRAFT MODEL WITH THE SPONTANEOUSLY IMMORTAL CELL LINE KCI-MENG1 Sharon Michelhaugh1, Anthony Guastella1, KaushikVaradarajan1, Lisa Polin1,2, Aliccia Bollig-Fischer1,2, Fazlul Sarkar1,2, and Sandeep Mittal1,2; Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA; Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI, USA BACKGROUND: There is a paucity of effective therapi...

Meningioangiomatosis is a rare hamartomatous lesion or meningiovascular malformation in brain. In extremely rare condition, meningioma may occur together with meningioangiomatosis, and only 19 cases have been described in English literature until now. We now report a case of meningioangiomatosis-associated meningioma with atypical and clear cell variant. A 34-year-old man presented a 3-month hi...

abstract a 49-year-old man with lutembacher's syndrome associated with frontal meningioma referred to our hospital. he also suffered from exertional dyspnea. transthoracic echocardiography demonstrated mitral valve area of 1.48 cm2, moderate mitral stenosis, and left atrial dimension (lad) of 5.6 cm with no clot. tee revealed severe mitral stenosis, mitral valve area of 1.05 cm2 with wilki...

Around 20% of meningiomas histologically benign may be clinically aggressive and recur. This strongly affects management of meningioma patients. There is a need to evaluate the potential aggressiveness of an individual meningioma. Additional criteria for better classification of meningiomas will improve clinical decisions as well as patient follow up strategy after surgery. The aim of this stud...