Malignant meningioma of the cerebellopontine angle in a 2-year-old girl: a case report and literature review

Meningioma is a common intracranial tumor in adults. Pediatric cases account for approximately 1.5% of all intracranial meningiomas, and very few cases show malignant histological features. Primary pediatric malignant meningioma in the cerebellopontine angle is extremely uncommon. Herein, we report...

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Autores principales: Fan, Ming-Chao, Zhang, Xin, Wang, Qiao-Ling, Cheng, Lei, Dai, Cai-Yun, Yu, Dan, Sun, Peng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center 2013
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Case Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3845606/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23470145
http://dx.doi.org/10.5732/cjc.012.10211
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author Fan, Ming-Chao
Zhang, Xin
Wang, Qiao-Ling
Cheng, Lei
Dai, Cai-Yun
Yu, Dan
Sun, Peng
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Zhang, Xin
Wang, Qiao-Ling
Cheng, Lei
Dai, Cai-Yun
Yu, Dan
Sun, Peng
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description Meningioma is a common intracranial tumor in adults. Pediatric cases account for approximately 1.5% of all intracranial meningiomas, and very few cases show malignant histological features. Primary pediatric malignant meningioma in the cerebellopontine angle is extremely uncommon. Herein, we report a 2-year-old girl with malignant meningioma in the cerebellopontine angle. The clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment protocol are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-38456062013-12-11 Malignant meningioma of the cerebellopontine angle in a 2-year-old girl: a case report and literature review Fan, Ming-Chao Zhang, Xin Wang, Qiao-Ling Cheng, Lei Dai, Cai-Yun Yu, Dan Sun, Peng Chin J Cancer Case Research Meningioma is a common intracranial tumor in adults. Pediatric cases account for approximately 1.5% of all intracranial meningiomas, and very few cases show malignant histological features. Primary pediatric malignant meningioma in the cerebellopontine angle is extremely uncommon. Herein, we report a 2-year-old girl with malignant meningioma in the cerebellopontine angle. The clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment protocol are discussed. Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center 2013-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3845606/ /pubmed/23470145 http://dx.doi.org/10.5732/cjc.012.10211 Text en Chinese Journal of Cancer http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which allows readers to alter, transform, or build upon the article and then distribute the resulting work under the same or similar license to this one. The work must be attributed back to the original author and commercial use is not permitted without specific permission.
spellingShingle Case Research
Fan, Ming-Chao
Zhang, Xin
Wang, Qiao-Ling
Cheng, Lei
Dai, Cai-Yun
Yu, Dan
Sun, Peng
Malignant meningioma of the cerebellopontine angle in a 2-year-old girl: a case report and literature review
title Malignant meningioma of the cerebellopontine angle in a 2-year-old girl: a case report and literature review
title_full Malignant meningioma of the cerebellopontine angle in a 2-year-old girl: a case report and literature review
title_fullStr Malignant meningioma of the cerebellopontine angle in a 2-year-old girl: a case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed Malignant meningioma of the cerebellopontine angle in a 2-year-old girl: a case report and literature review
title_short Malignant meningioma of the cerebellopontine angle in a 2-year-old girl: a case report and literature review
title_sort malignant meningioma of the cerebellopontine angle in a 2-year-old girl: a case report and literature review
topic Case Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3845606/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23470145
http://dx.doi.org/10.5732/cjc.012.10211
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