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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| author | Mohamed Lahkim, PHC, PHD std, Professor Assistant Hajar Andour, Radiology resident Fatima Zahrae Laamrani, PHC, PHD std, Assistant Professor Hassan En Nouali, Professor Jamal El Fenni, Professor |
| author_facet | Mohamed Lahkim, PHC, PHD std, Professor Assistant Hajar Andour, Radiology resident Fatima Zahrae Laamrani, PHC, PHD std, Assistant Professor Hassan En Nouali, Professor Jamal El Fenni, Professor |
| author_sort | Mohamed Lahkim, PHC, PHD std, Professor Assistant |
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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 | doaj.art-c522dd0735f74621ae7439c9e48d084f2022-12-21T21:47:35ZengElsevierRadiology Case Reports1930-04332021-10-01161029582961Cystic meningioma: A case report with a literature reviewMohamed Lahkim, PHC, PHD std, Professor Assistant0Hajar Andour, Radiology resident1Fatima Zahrae Laamrani, PHC, PHD std, Assistant Professor2Hassan En Nouali, Professor3Jamal El Fenni, Professor4Corresponding author.; Radiology department, Mohammed V - Military Hospital, Rabat, Morocco.Radiology department, Mohammed V - Military Hospital, Rabat, Morocco.Radiology department, Mohammed V - Military Hospital, Rabat, Morocco.Radiology department, Mohammed V - Military Hospital, Rabat, Morocco.Radiology department, Mohammed V - Military Hospital, Rabat, Morocco.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.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1930043321004878CysticMeningiomaMRIHistology |
| spellingShingle | Mohamed Lahkim, PHC, PHD std, Professor Assistant Hajar Andour, Radiology resident Fatima Zahrae Laamrani, PHC, PHD std, Assistant Professor Hassan En Nouali, Professor Jamal El Fenni, Professor Cystic meningioma: A case report with a literature review Radiology Case Reports Cystic Meningioma MRI Histology |
| title | Cystic meningioma: A case report with a literature review |
| title_full | Cystic meningioma: A case report with a literature review |
| title_fullStr | Cystic meningioma: A case report with a literature review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cystic meningioma: A case report with a literature review |
| title_short | Cystic meningioma: A case report with a literature review |
| title_sort | cystic meningioma a case report with a literature review |
| topic | Cystic Meningioma MRI Histology |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1930043321004878 |
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