Malignant intraventricular meningioma with craniospinal dissemination and concurrent pulmonary metastasis
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Malignant intraventricular meningioma with craniospinal dissemination and concurrent pulmonary metastasis
BACKGROUND Malignant intraventricular meningiomas are quite rare and may spread along the craniospinal axis or extraneurally. However, simultaneous cerebrospinal dissemination and distal extraneural metastasis has seldom been reported. CASE PRESENTATION A 51-year-old woman presented with recurrent anaplastic meningioma in the trigone of right lateral ventricle over a 1.5-year period. Suggeste...
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عنوان ژورنال: World Journal of Surgical Oncology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1477-7819
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-12-238