Primary pulmonary meningioma may arise from meningothelial-like nodules.
A rare case of primary pulmonary meningioma, associated with meningothelial-like nodules in the same lung resection, with preoperative fine needle aspiration cytological findings and ultrastructural features, is described. The simultaneous presence of meningioma and meningothelial-like nodules, never before described, corroborates the unifying hypothesis of their common origin and nature.
Department of Pathology, S. Corona Hospital, Azienda G. Salvini, Garbagnate Milanese, Milano, Italy.
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D000368:Aged; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D003896:Desmosomes / Q000648:ultrastructure; D004847:Epithelial Cells / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008579:Meningioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed