Intracranial meningioma with pulmonary metastases: diagnosis by percutaneous fine-needle aspiration biopsy and electron microscopy.
The authors report a patient with a history of recurrent intracranial meningiomas in whom two lung nodules developed. A percutaneous fine-needle aspiration biopsy of one nodule demonstrated spindle-form cells; the tumour was specifically diagnosed as metastatic meningioma on the basis of electron microscopic findings.
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Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.
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Dardick
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Herman
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Chamberlain
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D000328:Adult; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008297:Male; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008579:Meningioma / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local