[Radiation-induced meningioma 20 years after operation and high-dose irradiation of an ependymoma].
We report the case of a 30 year old female patient who had got high-dose irradiation at the age of 10 after subtotal removal of an ependymoma in the fourth ventricle. 20 years later a meningioma of the tuberculum sellae was diagnosed and removed surgically. In this case the following meningioma fulfills the criteria for a radiation-induced tumor. There exist many reports about tumors of the central nervous system which have developed after radiotherapy in the irradiated field after a latency period. But after a thorough review of the international literature about radiation-induced tumors of the CNS is this the third case in which a benign meningioma has followed a radiotherapy for an ependymoma.
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Neurochirurgische Klinik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen.
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D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D004806:Ependymoma / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D008579:Meningioma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed