Rahmah NN, Horiuchi T, Nakayama J, Nitta J, Hongo K. Cutaneous malignant melanoma "recurred as" or "in coexistence" with meningioma?
Surg Neurol Int 2010;
1:60. [PMID:
20975977 PMCID:
PMC2958332 DOI:
10.4103/2152-7806.70853]
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Abstract
Background:
The authors report a rare case of a patient with previously treated cutaneous malignant melanoma that recurred 1 year later as an intracranial meningioma.
Case Description:
A 20-year-old woman presented with exophthalmos, diplopia and a mass in the left supraorbital area. Imaging study revealed an enhanced intracranial extradural mass with bone destruction. The patient had a history of cutaneous malignant melanoma surgery on the same location 1 year before. The patient underwent left frontotemporal craniotomy for total resection of the mass. Histological study revealed the intracranial mass to be an atypical meningioma.
Conclusion:
To our knowledge, this is a rare report of a patient with this tumor occurrence. This case serves to remind neurosurgeons of the potential existence of benign and/ or malignant tumors of neural crest origin.
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