Delayed Treatment of Retroclival Meningioma in a 70-year-old Female

We report a case of a 70-year-old female who presented with a four-year history of progressive headaches in the occipital area. MRI revealed a right inferior clival meningioma. Treatment was delayed for over a year due to multiple referrals resulting in the development of new symptoms including decr...

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Autores principales: Tan, Vivian S, Best, Lara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
Materias:
Radiation Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6999723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32047715
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6579
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description We report a case of a 70-year-old female who presented with a four-year history of progressive headaches in the occipital area. MRI revealed a right inferior clival meningioma. Treatment was delayed for over a year due to multiple referrals resulting in the development of new symptoms including decreased balance, generalized weakness, and difficulty swallowing.
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spelling pubmed-69997232020-02-11 Delayed Treatment of Retroclival Meningioma in a 70-year-old Female Tan, Vivian S Best, Lara Cureus Radiation Oncology We report a case of a 70-year-old female who presented with a four-year history of progressive headaches in the occipital area. MRI revealed a right inferior clival meningioma. Treatment was delayed for over a year due to multiple referrals resulting in the development of new symptoms including decreased balance, generalized weakness, and difficulty swallowing. Cureus 2020-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6999723/ /pubmed/32047715 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6579 Text en Copyright © 2020, Tan et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_full Delayed Treatment of Retroclival Meningioma in a 70-year-old Female
title_fullStr Delayed Treatment of Retroclival Meningioma in a 70-year-old Female
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title_short Delayed Treatment of Retroclival Meningioma in a 70-year-old Female
title_sort delayed treatment of retroclival meningioma in a 70-year-old female
topic Radiation Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6999723/
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