Cystic meningioma: A case report with a literature review

Cystic meningiomas are very rare tumors of the central nervous system. We report the case of a 62-year-old female how presented headaches resistant to usual analgesics with behavior disorders. Cerebral CT scan showed a right frontal extra-axial tumor with firm and cystic component, brain MRI evoked...

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Autores principales: Lahkim, Mohamed, Andour, Hajar, Laamrani, Fatima Zahrae, Nouali, Hassan En, Fenni, Jamal El
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8350377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34401033
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2021.07.016
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author Lahkim, Mohamed
Andour, Hajar
Laamrani, Fatima Zahrae
Nouali, Hassan En
Fenni, Jamal El
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description Cystic meningiomas are very rare tumors of the central nervous system. We report the case of a 62-year-old female how presented headaches resistant to usual analgesics with behavior disorders. Cerebral CT scan showed a right frontal extra-axial tumor with firm and cystic component, brain MRI evoked the diagnosis, surgery removed the entire tumor and histological examination confirmed it. A cystic meningioma should not be omitted from the differential diagnosis of brain tumors with a cystic component and which clinical, radiological, histological and therapeutic features are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-83503772021-08-15 Cystic meningioma: A case report with a literature review Lahkim, Mohamed Andour, Hajar Laamrani, Fatima Zahrae Nouali, Hassan En Fenni, Jamal El Radiol Case Rep Case Report Cystic meningiomas are very rare tumors of the central nervous system. We report the case of a 62-year-old female how presented headaches resistant to usual analgesics with behavior disorders. Cerebral CT scan showed a right frontal extra-axial tumor with firm and cystic component, brain MRI evoked the diagnosis, surgery removed the entire tumor and histological examination confirmed it. A cystic meningioma should not be omitted from the differential diagnosis of brain tumors with a cystic component and which clinical, radiological, histological and therapeutic features are discussed. Elsevier 2021-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8350377/ /pubmed/34401033 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2021.07.016 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8350377/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2021.07.016
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