Extracranial meningioma presenting as a nasal polyp.
The extracranial occurrence of meningiomas is summarized. A patient suffering from repeated episodes of epistaxis presented with a lobulated nasal polyp which was found to be a meningioma. At subsequent radical removal, the extracranial location in the nose, ethmoidal region and cribriform area was verified.
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008579:Meningioma / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009296:Nasal Cavity / Q000473:pathology*; D009298:Nasal Polyps / Q000473:pathology*; D009669:Nose Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*