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Extracerebral anaplastic meningioma

KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: Conventional treatments of anaplastic meningioma include surgery and radiotherapy. Temozolomide is also an option. Metastases to extracerebral organs are very rare and hardly manageable. Antiangiogenic drugs could represent a salvage therapy. ABSTRACT: Anaplastic meningioma is...

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Autores principales: Carillio, Guido, Lavecchia, Anna Maria, Misuraca, Demetrio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10397478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37546165
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7763
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Sumario:KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: Conventional treatments of anaplastic meningioma include surgery and radiotherapy. Temozolomide is also an option. Metastases to extracerebral organs are very rare and hardly manageable. Antiangiogenic drugs could represent a salvage therapy. ABSTRACT: Anaplastic meningioma is an unusual tumor subtype that rarely involves organs outside the brain. In our case, a patient with cerebral meningioma developed lung metastases after 19 years from the initial tumor appearance. This unpredictable behavior could make complex the diagnosis.