Meningioma of Foramen Magnum Causing Drop Attacks

A 52-year-old female presented with frequent episodes of falls without loss of consciousness. These episodes lasted for brief period followed by full neurological recovery. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain showed foramen magnum meningioma encasing left vertebral artery. The patient had...

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Autores principales: Mahore, Amit, Ramdasi, Raghvendra, Mavani, Sandip, Rangarajan, Vithal, Patil, Manoj, Sathe, Prashant, Kawale, Juhi, Tikeykar, Vishakha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4352434/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25793133
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/214563
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author Mahore, Amit
Ramdasi, Raghvendra
Mavani, Sandip
Rangarajan, Vithal
Patil, Manoj
Sathe, Prashant
Kawale, Juhi
Tikeykar, Vishakha
author_facet Mahore, Amit
Ramdasi, Raghvendra
Mavani, Sandip
Rangarajan, Vithal
Patil, Manoj
Sathe, Prashant
Kawale, Juhi
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description A 52-year-old female presented with frequent episodes of falls without loss of consciousness. These episodes lasted for brief period followed by full neurological recovery. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain showed foramen magnum meningioma encasing left vertebral artery. The patient had dramatic improvement after excision of the tumor.
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spelling pubmed-43524342015-03-19 Meningioma of Foramen Magnum Causing Drop Attacks Mahore, Amit Ramdasi, Raghvendra Mavani, Sandip Rangarajan, Vithal Patil, Manoj Sathe, Prashant Kawale, Juhi Tikeykar, Vishakha Case Rep Neurol Med Case Report A 52-year-old female presented with frequent episodes of falls without loss of consciousness. These episodes lasted for brief period followed by full neurological recovery. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain showed foramen magnum meningioma encasing left vertebral artery. The patient had dramatic improvement after excision of the tumor. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4352434/ /pubmed/25793133 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/214563 Text en Copyright © 2015 Amit Mahore et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Tikeykar, Vishakha
Meningioma of Foramen Magnum Causing Drop Attacks
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