Pediatric cystic meningioma: report of three cases
β Scribed by Marco Artico; Luigi Ferrante; Luigi Cervoni; Claudio Colonnese; Aldo Fortuna
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 534 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0256-7040
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π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Cystic or necrotic hypodense areas are occasionally seen within meningiomas on CT scans. Two diffusely hypodense endotheliomatous meningiomas are reported. The low density was due to a microcystic structure, which caused a spongy appearance and consistency.
In a 25-year-old woman, suddenly complaining of irritation and soon after of paretic symptoms in the right upper limb, a CT scan showed a large cystic mass in the left parietal lobe. As cerebral angiography was not helpful, a cystic astrocytoma was suspected. After total surgical removal of the cyst