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Solitary Dural Plasmacytoma
Author(s) -
Gad Adel,
Willén Roger,
Willén Helena,
Gö;thman Lars
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
acta pathologica microbiologica scandinavica section a pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0365-4184
DOI - 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1978.tb02008.x
Subject(s) - plasmacytoma , meningioma , medicine , lesion , extramedullary plasmacytoma , radiology , pathology , multiple myeloma
Only four of the nine published cases of solitary, extraskeletal, intracranial plasmacytoma are considered authentic. In this report we describe an accidentally discovered dural plasmacytoma and draw the attention to this rare lesion which might have a different prognosis from the rather benign course of meningioma with which it is confused.