Meningioma after contralateral hemispherectomy for malignant glioma: case report.
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Meningioma after contralateral hemispherectomy for malignant glioma: case report.
A patient is described who successfully underwent cerebral hemispherectomy for malignant glioma and whose death nine months later, wrongly ascribed to recurrent malignancy, was in fact due to a subsequently-developing benign meningioma in the remaining hemisphere. The possible advantages of a modification of standard hemispherectomy technique are also discussed.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1975
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.38.5.493