ABSTRACT
Spinal meningiomas are much more common in women. The peak age incidence of presentation occurs in the sixth decade. Cystic meningiomas are rare and seem to have a predilection for children. We report a case of cystic spinal meningioma in a young man presenting as a ring enhancing lesion on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). This case is unusual because of the atypical features of the tumour, the relatively young age and sex of the patient.
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Cysts/diagnosis , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Meningeal Neoplasms/diagnosis , Meningioma/diagnosis , Adult , Cysts/pathology , Cysts/surgery , Humans , Male , Meningeal Neoplasms/pathology , Meningeal Neoplasms/surgery , Meningioma/pathology , Meningioma/surgery , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
A 36-year-old woman presented with severe frontal headache, fever, left palpebral swelling, and proptosis. Radiographic studies showed a giant frontoethmoidal osteoma, that extended intracranially into the frontal lobe and was associated with two abscesses, one within the lesion and the other in the right frontal lobe. The tumour was excised and the abscesses drained. The patient made a full recovery.
