Malignant meningioma with extension into the neck.
One per cent of all brain tumours and twenty per cent of meningiomas eventually develop an extracranial extension. The least common site is the neck. We report a case of malignant meningioma with extension into the neck of a 39-year-old male.
Soares
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Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anesthesia and Intensive Care, UWI, Jamaica.
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Crandon
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Shaw
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D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008579:Meningioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D011379:Prognosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed