Cerebral and two spinal meningiomas removed from the same patient: case report

Neurosurgery. 1989 Sep;25(3):447-50. doi: 10.1097/00006123-198909000-00021.

Abstract

An exceptional combination of an intracranial convexity and two thoracic spinal meningiomas in a 17-year-old girl is reported. The small meningioma in the left central parasagittal region was removed. One year later, paraplegia rapidly developed. Two meningiomas (one of them ossified) about 2 cm in size were removed from the midthoracic level of the spinal cord. The distance between the two spinal tumors was about 2 cm. One and one-half years after surgery the patient is well. The problem of multicentricity of meningiomas is discussed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Brain Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Laminectomy
  • Meningeal Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Meningioma / surgery*
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / surgery*
  • Postoperative Complications / surgery
  • Spinal Cord Compression / surgery
  • Spinal Cord Neoplasms / surgery*