Eleven times recurrences of a parasagittal falxmeningioma. Case report.
Although meningiomas are of benign character and generally of encapsulated growth, recurrence is a known problem in treatment. The authors present the time course of a recurrent parasagittal meningioma of the falx, which recurred eleven times. Despite modern radiological diagnostic methods, which made early diagnosis of recurrent tumour possible, and the use of modern microsurgical techniques with radical tumour extirpation and followed by radiotherapy, the fatal course of benign tumour disease could not be stopped.
Bushe
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Department of Neurosurgery, University of Würzburg, Federal Republic of Germany.
Meixensberger
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Nadjmi
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Kirchner
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Dittmann
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D008579:Meningioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed