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Incidental Metastatic Meningioma Presenting as a Large Liver Mass
Meningiomas are slow growing neoplasms of the central nervous system (CNS). Most of the tumors are benign and distant metastasis from a benign meningioma is rare. Metastasis to the liver, although rare, usually presents with hypoglycemia or occurs in conjunction with a clinical history of an intracr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5964563/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29854500 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1089394 |
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author | Obiorah, Ifeyinwa E. Ozdemirli, Metin |
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description | Meningiomas are slow growing neoplasms of the central nervous system (CNS). Most of the tumors are benign and distant metastasis from a benign meningioma is rare. Metastasis to the liver, although rare, usually presents with hypoglycemia or occurs in conjunction with a clinical history of an intracranial meningioma or following the resection of a prior CNS meningioma, thus making clinical diagnosis relatively easy. Here we present an unusual case of metastatic meningioma to the liver in a 54-year-old female who presented with an incidental liver mass by ultrasound. Her clinical history and physical examination were unremarkable. A partial hepatectomy revealed a meningioma on histology. Further investigation by imaging studies showed a frontal parasagittal dural mass which was confirmed to be a World Health Organization (WHO) grade 1 meningioma. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a clinically silent metastatic meningioma to the liver without either a concurrent or a previous history of meningioma. Precise diagnosis of this challenging case requires high clinical suspicion, histopathology, and immunohistochemistry. |
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spelling | pubmed-59645632018-05-31 Incidental Metastatic Meningioma Presenting as a Large Liver Mass Obiorah, Ifeyinwa E. Ozdemirli, Metin Case Reports Hepatol Case Report Meningiomas are slow growing neoplasms of the central nervous system (CNS). Most of the tumors are benign and distant metastasis from a benign meningioma is rare. Metastasis to the liver, although rare, usually presents with hypoglycemia or occurs in conjunction with a clinical history of an intracranial meningioma or following the resection of a prior CNS meningioma, thus making clinical diagnosis relatively easy. Here we present an unusual case of metastatic meningioma to the liver in a 54-year-old female who presented with an incidental liver mass by ultrasound. Her clinical history and physical examination were unremarkable. A partial hepatectomy revealed a meningioma on histology. Further investigation by imaging studies showed a frontal parasagittal dural mass which was confirmed to be a World Health Organization (WHO) grade 1 meningioma. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a clinically silent metastatic meningioma to the liver without either a concurrent or a previous history of meningioma. Precise diagnosis of this challenging case requires high clinical suspicion, histopathology, and immunohistochemistry. Hindawi 2018-05-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5964563/ /pubmed/29854500 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1089394 Text en Copyright © 2018 Ifeyinwa E. Obiorah and Metin Ozdemirli. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Obiorah, Ifeyinwa E. Ozdemirli, Metin Incidental Metastatic Meningioma Presenting as a Large Liver Mass |
title | Incidental Metastatic Meningioma Presenting as a Large Liver Mass |
title_full | Incidental Metastatic Meningioma Presenting as a Large Liver Mass |
title_fullStr | Incidental Metastatic Meningioma Presenting as a Large Liver Mass |
title_full_unstemmed | Incidental Metastatic Meningioma Presenting as a Large Liver Mass |
title_short | Incidental Metastatic Meningioma Presenting as a Large Liver Mass |
title_sort | incidental metastatic meningioma presenting as a large liver mass |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5964563/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29854500 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1089394 |
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