title: Ventriculoperitoneal shunt related meningioma following excision and radiotherapy for glioma.
abstract: A 25-year-old man with a history of childhood cerebellar glioma treated by surgical removal, radiotherapy and a ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt presented with a 5 month history of frontal headaches. Imaging revealed a mass surrounding his shunt, which was surgically removed, with the shunt left in situ. Histopathological examination revealed an atypical and invasive meningioma. A similar case of a meningioma related to a shunt appears in the literature, again in the context of radiotherapy following removal of a previous neoplasm. Copyright 1999 Harcourt Publishers Ltd.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Neurosurgery, Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Holthouse
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Robbins
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Lee