tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: " Extraneural metastases from cranial meningioma: a case report"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Radiation Oncology cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: " Extraneural metastases from cranial meningioma: a case report. | Radiation Oncology BioMed Central Open Access Short report Extraneural metastases from cranial meningioma a case report Mirna Abboud1 George Haddad2 Mireille Kattar3 Ibrahim Aburiziq3 and Fady B Geara 1 Address Department of radiation Oncology The American University of Beirut Medical Center Bliss Street Beirut Lebanon 2Division of Neurosurgery the American University of Beirut Medical Center Bliss Street Beirut Lebanon and 3Department of Pathology the American University of Beirut Medical Center Bliss Street Beirut Lebanon Email Mirna Abboud - ma89@ George Haddad - gfhaddad@ Mireille Kattar - mireillekattar@ Ibrahim Aburiziq - iaburiziq@ Fady B Geara - fg00@ Corresponding author Published 6 July 2009 Received 25 March 2009 Radiation Oncology 2009 4 20 doi 1748-717X-4-20 Accepted 6 July 2009 This article is available from http content 4 1 20 2009 Abboud et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Extracranial metastases from brain meningiomas is a rare but well-documented entity. Metastases occur mostly in the lungs pleura and liver but may also affect lymph nodes and bones. We report here on a patient who was treated for an atypical brain meningioma with multiple surgeries and multiple sessions of stereotactic radiosurgery with good control of his brain disease. Thirteen years after diagnosis he developed bilateral large sacroiliac and abdominal metastases. Introduction Meningioma is a common intracranial tumor. Most meningiomas are benign slowly growing tumors that histologically correspond to World Health Organization WHO grade I. However atypical WHO grade II and anaplastic WHO grade III meningiomas show a more aggressive .