Rhabdoid meningioma: a new subtype of malignant meningioma also apt to occur in children |
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| Authors: | Juan F. Martínez-Lage Belén Ferri Ñiguez Joaquín Sola Miguel A. Pérez-Espejo Javier Ros de San Pedro Víctor Fernandez-Cornejo |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Regional Service of Neurosurgery, Virgen de la Arrixaca University Hospital, 30120 El Palmar, Murcia, Spain;(2) Grupo de Neurología y Neurocirugía Experimental (Grupo NYNE), University of Murcia Medical School, Murcia, Spain;(3) Service of Pathology, Virgen de la Arrixaca University Hospital, 30120 El Palmar, Murcia, Spain |
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| Abstract: | Case report The case of a 14-year-old girl who presented with a 2-week history of raised intracranial pressure is reported. A left frontal extra-axial tumor was totally removed, whose histopathologic diagnosis was rhabdoid meningioma (RM).Discussion Rhabdoid meningiomas constitute a special malignant phenotype of meningioma that has been recently included in the WHO classification of tumors of the nervous system. Usually, RMs affect middle-aged and elderly individuals. We report the fourth case of a RM occurring in a child to illustrate that the diagnosis of this tumor subtype, given its prognostic implications, must also be considered in pediatric patients |
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| Keywords: | Childhood brain tumor Extrarenal rhabdoid tumors Malignant brain tumor Malignant meningioma Meningioma Rhabdoid meningioma |
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