A 64-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of persistent dyspnoea for the past 1 month. He had recurrent brain anaplastic meningioma after two operations and irradiation. He suffered from right pleural effusion in the previous few months and was diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma via pleural biopsy 1 month prior to coming to our hospital. At his first visit to our hospital, thora...

A 66-year-old male presented with cerebellovestibular symptoms and hypesthesia of the V2 area of his face. Neuroimaging only detected a cerebellopontine angle (CPA) meningioma. The CPA meningioma was removed using the lateral suboccipital approach, which exposed small neurinomas arising from the trochlear and abducens nerves. Both neurinomas were removed intracapsularly. Postoperatively hypesth...

18 to 20, 1978. On June 1, 1885, Francesco Durante, professor of clinical surgery at the University of Rome, performed the first successful operation for an intracranial tumor when he removed a pre dominantly unilateral meningioma of the left olfactory groove. This procedure followed the celebrated Bennett-Godlee case, which resulted in a fatality, by only 6 months.' If we were to designate an ...

Pulmonary metastases of benign meningiomas are extremely rare. The case of a 34-year-old man with bilateral parasagittal meningioma who developed pulmonary metastases is described. The meningioma was an enormous hypervascular tumor with invasion of the superior sagittal sinus. The tumor was resected completely and histologically diagnosed as transitional meningioma. The Ki-67 labeling index was...

Ossified meningioma is classified histologically as a phenotype of metaplastic meningioma, and it is extremely rare. There are only 12 cases involving ossified spinal meningiomas in the literature. We present the case of a 61-year-old female with a primary tumor within the ventral spinal canal at T12. Although we performed a total tumor excision using an ultrasonic bone aspirator, a temporary d...

Meningiomas are the most common benign brain tumors, and are characterized by slow growth and a long asymptomatic period. Once the tumor becomes symptomatic, the various presentations may be related to the location and compression of adjacent structures. Meningioma is primarily treated through surgical intervention, and thus earlier diagnosis is likely to result in better prognosis. The symptom...

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Metastases from tumors to systemic cancers are rare. The most common intracranial recipient tumor is meningioma. Metastasis from gallbladder cancer has been previously reported from only one patient during autopsy. We present the case of a 72-year-old woman who underwent surgery for right frontal skull base meningioma.The tumor was completely removed. Histological specimens showed gallbladder c...

We report herein a case of a 65-year-old male with intracranial recurrence of atypical meningioma initially treated with a combination of surgical resection and gamma knife radiotherapy. Afterwards, he underwent a Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT scan in order to evaluate the feasibility of peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT). The scan identified multiple pulmonary, pleural and lymph node localizatio...

Hyperostosis is the most common skull change associated with meningioma. Five hyperostosis cases of meningioma en plaque infiltrating the skull processed without previous decalcification of the bone tissue were investigated histologically and immunohistochemically with antibodies against somatostatin receptor 2A (SSR2A). Undecalcified bone biopsies embedded in methylmethacrylate and paraffin-em...