Open AccessFourth ventricular meningioma in an adult: Case report and review of the literature
Author(s) -
Rajendra Shrestha,
Yuekang Zhang,
Chao You
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
indian journal of neurosurgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2277-954X
pISSN - 2277-9167
DOI - 10.4103/2277-9167.102294
Subject(s) - choroid plexus , meningioma , third ventricle , medicine , anatomy , lateral ventricles , cerebral ventricle , ventricle , cerebral ventricle neoplasms , fourth ventricle , lateral recess , radiology , central nervous system , magnetic resonance imaging , lumbar
Meningiomas are one of the most common clinical entities in everyday neurosurgical practice. Most meningiomas are extra-axial dural-based lesions. They typically occur along intradural venous sinuses, at the confluences of multiple cranial sutures and also others sites where arachnoid granulations and arachnoid cell rests occur. Most of these tumors also do occur within the lateral ventricles than third ventricle but they are exceptional in fourth ventricle thought to arise from the choroid plexus without dural attachment. Here we present two cases of fourth ventricle meningiomas