Vertebral metastases from intracranial meningioma

Meningioma rarely gives rise to metastases outside the brain and meninges. We report here a case of a patient who was treated for anaplastic brain meningioma with surgery and fractionated radiation therapy without any recurrence until 5 years after the operation, when she developed vertebral metasta...

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Autores principales: Zaghouani, H, Yahyaoui, S, Chabchoub, I, Mallat, N, Majdoub, S, Amara, H, Bakir, D, Badreddine, S, Kraiem, C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4184420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25298865
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2047981613494199
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Sumario:Meningioma rarely gives rise to metastases outside the brain and meninges. We report here a case of a patient who was treated for anaplastic brain meningioma with surgery and fractionated radiation therapy without any recurrence until 5 years after the operation, when she developed vertebral metastases.

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