A 68-year-old man underwent a resection of the right middle lobe for a solitary lesion detected at computed tomography. The histologic result was suggestive for a pulmonary meningioma. Although the result of a preoperative brain computed tomography scan was negative, magnetic resonance imaging showed a skull-base meningioma. On the basis of the absence of symptoms, we decided to observe the intracranial meningioma. At 3 years of follow-up, the patient was free of recurrence and the cerebral lesion was stable. Primary pulmonary meningioma and benign meningioma metastasis share identical microscopic findings, and only a central nervous system radiologic study allows their distinction. The pulmonary lesion in our patient was classified as a meningioma metastasis.

Chiarelli, M., De Simone, M., Gerosa, M., Guttadauro, A., Cioffi, U. (2015). An incidental pulmonary meningioma revealing an intracranial meningioma: Primary or secondary lesion?. ANNALS OF THORACIC SURGERY, 99(4), e83-e84 [10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.01.045].

An incidental pulmonary meningioma revealing an intracranial meningioma: Primary or secondary lesion?

GUTTADAURO, ANGELO
Penultimo
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2015

Abstract

A 68-year-old man underwent a resection of the right middle lobe for a solitary lesion detected at computed tomography. The histologic result was suggestive for a pulmonary meningioma. Although the result of a preoperative brain computed tomography scan was negative, magnetic resonance imaging showed a skull-base meningioma. On the basis of the absence of symptoms, we decided to observe the intracranial meningioma. At 3 years of follow-up, the patient was free of recurrence and the cerebral lesion was stable. Primary pulmonary meningioma and benign meningioma metastasis share identical microscopic findings, and only a central nervous system radiologic study allows their distinction. The pulmonary lesion in our patient was classified as a meningioma metastasis.
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Intracranic Meningioma, Incidental Pulmonary Meningioma
English
2015
99
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e83
e84
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Chiarelli, M., De Simone, M., Gerosa, M., Guttadauro, A., Cioffi, U. (2015). An incidental pulmonary meningioma revealing an intracranial meningioma: Primary or secondary lesion?. ANNALS OF THORACIC SURGERY, 99(4), e83-e84 [10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.01.045].
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