title: [Cystic meningioma in children. Apropos of a case].
abstract: A case of cystic meningioma in a 9-year old girl is reported. The initial clinical symptom was focal epilepsy, and this was followed by progressive hemiparesis. CT of the brain detected a calcified tumour to which two cysts were attached. The tumour was strongly enhanced by the contrast medium. Histology confirmed that the lesion was a meningioma of the psammous type. A review of the literature showed that this is a rare tumour the pathogenesis of which can be explained in various ways. Nautal's classification into 4 types is the most widely adopted. The diagnosis has been made in only 38% of the 166 cases published.
authors.affiliation: Service de Neurochirurgie, CHU Ibn Rochd, Casablanca (Maroc).
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: el Kamar
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ouboukhlik
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: el Azhari
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boucetta
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003560:Cysts / Q000473:pathology; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008579:Meningioma / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: Méningiome kystique de l'enfant. A propos d'un cas.