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One per cent of all brain tumours and twenty per cent of meningiomas eventually develop an extracranial extension. The least common site is the neck. We report a case of malignant meningioma with extension into the neck of a 39-year-old male.(Au)
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Adulto , Relatos de Casos , Humanos , Masculino , Meningioma/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias de Cabeça e Pescoço/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias Meníngeas/tratamento farmacológico , Jamaica , Cérebro/patologia , Neoplasias de Cabeça e Pescoço/terapia , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Meningioma/terapia , Prognóstico , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios XRESUMO
We present a case of a patient admitted to a psychiatric hospital with psychotic symptoms and cognitive impairment but who was subsequently found to have an anterior interhemispheric falx meningioma. There must be a high index of suspicion for organic brain disease in patients over age 45 years presenting with psychotic symptoms and seizures for the first time.(AU)
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Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Relatos de Casos , Feminino , Humanos , Meningioma/diagnósticoRESUMO
A statistical survey of the incidence, age and sex distribution, and preferential sites of occurrence of tumours of the central nervous system observed at the University Hospital of the West Indies during a 15-year period is presented. Four hundred and seventy-six histologically confirmed neoplasms were recorded. Intracranial tumours were 7 times as common as those of the spinal cord. Of 416 intracranial neoplasms, there were 40 percent neuropithelial tumours, 21 percent meningiomas, 15 percent pituitary adenomas, 9 percent metastatic lesions, 6 percent congenital tumours, 5 percent vasoformative tumours, 3 percent nerve sheath tumours and 1 percent unclassified neoplasms. Men and women were equally affected. Meningiomas and pituitary adenomas were more frequent than in other reported series. Metastases were relatively more frequent in the spinal than in the intracranial group. Of the primary spinal tumours, those of nerve sheath origin were nearly three times as common as the meningiomas (AU)
