title: [Atypical, aplastic, and unusual meningiomas. Morphology and incidence in 300 consecutive cases].
abstract: We morphologically studied 300 consecutive and primitive meningiomas surgically treated between march 1997 and april 2002 in order to evaluate the incidence of atypical, anaplastic, and morphologically unusual meningiomas. Two hundred and fifty-five meningiomas (85%) were WHO I, 33 (11%) were WHO II, 9 (3%) were WHO III; the remaining 3 meningiomas (1%) showed clear and diffuse oncocytic differentiation without cytologic or architectural atypia (oncocytic meningiomas). Forty-five of 255 WHO I meningiomas (18%) were infrequent histological subtypes: 18 (7%) psammomatous, 9 (4%) metaplastic, 9 (4%) secretory, 6 (2%) angiomatous, and 3 (1%) microcystic. Thirty of 33 WHO II meningiomas (91%) were atypical, 2 (6%) were clear cell meningiomas, and 1 (3%) was chordoid meningioma. Seven of 9 WHO III meningiomas (78%) were anaplastic and 2 (22%) were papillary. We evidenced the high morphological variability and the discrete occurrence of WHO I and WHO II meningiomas.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Patologia Umana e Oncologia Università di Firenze, Viale G. B. Morgagni 85, 50134 Firenze. gl.taddei@unifi.it
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Buccoliero
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Caldarella
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Taddei
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Di Lorenzo
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gallina
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mennonna
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ammannati
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Taddei
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*; D008579:Meningioma / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*