Traumatic origin of a meningioma?
The case of a 41-year-old pregnant woman is reported who was found dead in her apartment 5 months after she had suffered a severe head injury due to a car accident. An autopsy, a meningioma (4 cm in diameter) was found localized in the right parieto-temporal region which had probably caused an epileptic seizure leading to central dysfunction and to death. The criteria concerning the diagnosis of a traumatic meningioma are discussed. In the present case, a causal connection between a former head trauma and the development of the tumor had to be refuted.
Betz
P
P
Department of Legal Medicine, University of Munich, Germany.
Eisenmenger
W
W
D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000328:Adult; D001344:Autopsy; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008579:Meningioma / Q000209:etiology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed