Meningioma after contralateral hemispherectomy for malignant glioma: case report.
A patient is described who successfully underwent cerebral hemispherectomy for malignant glioma and whose death nine months later, wrongly ascribed to recurrent malignancy, was in fact due to a subsequently-developing benign meningioma in the remaining hemisphere. The possible advantages of a modification of standard hemispherectomy technique are also discussed.
D000328:Adult; D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008579:Meningioma / Q000150:complications*; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications