title: Multiple meningiomas in different neuraxial compartments. Report of two cases.
abstract: Multiple meningiomas in different neuraxial compartments are quite rare. The authors report two new cases of association between cranial and spinal meningiomas, one of them in a patient operated upon for multiple intracranial meningiomas. The first case was a 60-year-old woman with progressive paraparesis who had been operated on 13 years earlier for multiple intracranial meningiomas. A myelo-CT scan showed a block of contrast medium at T1-T2; the lesion was removed via a standard laminectomy. The second patient was a 76-year-old woman with a 6-month history of spastic paraparesis. MRI detected an extramedullary intradural lesion at T6-T7. A cerebral MRI, performed because of the onset of seizures, showed a right parietal lesion. Removal of the thoracic lesion was followed, 6 months later, by removal of the cerebral one. Both patients presented a progressive improvement of the paraparesis and returned to normal daily activities.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Università degli Studi La Sapienza, Roma.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Santoro
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tacconi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Paolini
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bristot
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bastianello
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D008579:Meningioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D013131:Spine / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology