Spontaneous pneumatocele during radiation of a giant meningosarcoma.
A man, aged 66 years, sustained a pneumatocele after radiotherapy for a frontabasal meningeal sarcoma. There was improvement initially, but a fall was experienced without injury to the head and the condition worsened. X-rays of the skull revealed a pneumatocele which was treated conservatively and disappeared within 4 weeks. The literature on spontaneous pneumatocele is reviewed briefly and the etiology discussed.
D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D008579:Meningioma / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D011007:Pneumocephalus / Q000209:etiology*; D011832:Radiation Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D012886:Skull / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging