Skull Vault Plasmacytoma Mimicking Parasagittal Meningioma: “Mini-Brain Appearance”

Plasmacytomas occur as lesions in soft tissue or bone. Skull vault plasmacytomas are rare lesions comprising 0.7% of all plasmacytomas. Workup for myeloma must be done in such cases to rule out multiple myeloma. Here, we report a case of a 63-year-old female who presented to us with a large skull va...

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Autores principales: Munjal, Satyashiva, Srivastava, Amit, Jain, Sunila, Mehta, Veer Singh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6417329/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30937041
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_219_17
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author Munjal, Satyashiva
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description Plasmacytomas occur as lesions in soft tissue or bone. Skull vault plasmacytomas are rare lesions comprising 0.7% of all plasmacytomas. Workup for myeloma must be done in such cases to rule out multiple myeloma. Here, we report a case of a 63-year-old female who presented to us with a large skull vault swelling which appeared to mimic a parasagittal meningioma on imaging. Histopathological imaging revealed it to be a plasmacytoma. A retrospective review of the radiology revealed the characteristic “mini-brain appearance” in our case. Literature on the subject is also reviewed.
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spelling pubmed-64173292019-04-01 Skull Vault Plasmacytoma Mimicking Parasagittal Meningioma: “Mini-Brain Appearance” Munjal, Satyashiva Srivastava, Amit Jain, Sunila Mehta, Veer Singh Asian J Neurosurg Case Report Plasmacytomas occur as lesions in soft tissue or bone. Skull vault plasmacytomas are rare lesions comprising 0.7% of all plasmacytomas. Workup for myeloma must be done in such cases to rule out multiple myeloma. Here, we report a case of a 63-year-old female who presented to us with a large skull vault swelling which appeared to mimic a parasagittal meningioma on imaging. Histopathological imaging revealed it to be a plasmacytoma. A retrospective review of the radiology revealed the characteristic “mini-brain appearance” in our case. Literature on the subject is also reviewed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6417329/ /pubmed/30937041 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_219_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Asian Journal of Neurosurgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Skull Vault Plasmacytoma Mimicking Parasagittal Meningioma: “Mini-Brain Appearance”
title Skull Vault Plasmacytoma Mimicking Parasagittal Meningioma: “Mini-Brain Appearance”
title_full Skull Vault Plasmacytoma Mimicking Parasagittal Meningioma: “Mini-Brain Appearance”
title_fullStr Skull Vault Plasmacytoma Mimicking Parasagittal Meningioma: “Mini-Brain Appearance”
title_full_unstemmed Skull Vault Plasmacytoma Mimicking Parasagittal Meningioma: “Mini-Brain Appearance”
title_short Skull Vault Plasmacytoma Mimicking Parasagittal Meningioma: “Mini-Brain Appearance”
title_sort skull vault plasmacytoma mimicking parasagittal meningioma: “mini-brain appearance”
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6417329/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30937041
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_219_17
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