Posttraumatic cutaneous meningioma of the face.
We present the CT and MR features of a posttraumatic cutaneous meningioma of the face. We postulate that the patient's trauma and associated skull fracture resulted in a trapping of extracranial meningeal tissue, which many years later gave rise to a secondary facial meningioma.
Walters
G A
GA
Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester 01655.
Ragland
R L
RL
Knorr
J R
JR
Malhotra
R
R
Gelber
N D
ND
D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D002828:Choristoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005153:Facial Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005624:Frontal Bone / Q000293:injuries*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008578:Meninges; D008579:Meningioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012887:Skull Fractures / Q000150:complications*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed