Open AccessIntracerebral metaplastic meningioma with prominent ossification and extensive calcification
Author(s) -
Jingxiang Huang,
Fredrik Petersson
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
rare tumors
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2036-3613
pISSN - 2036-3605
DOI - 10.4081/rt.2011.e20
Subject(s) - medicine , calcification , meningioma , ossification , pathology , dystrophic calcification , radiology , anatomy
We present a patient (male 26 years) with a short history of recurrent seizures induced by a largely intracerebrally located frontal lobe meningioma. The tumor displayed a heretofore unpublished combination of extensive metaplastic bone formation and prominent non-psammomatous calcifications with focal chicken-wire pattern
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