Multiple globoid meningiomas associated with craniomandibular fibrous dysplasia: case report.
A 20-year-old male with craniomandibular deformity and almost total visual loss of the right eye due to bilateral optic atrophy underwent cerebral nonenhanced computed tomography (NECT) examinations. He had multiple sphenoidal-temporoparietal meningiomas, with adjacent hyperostoses and distant calvarial hyperdense lesions, as well as sclerotic expansion of right mandibular condyle. History, clinical and imaging findings were suggestive of associated fibrous dysplasia (FD), which explained the visual loss due to optic nerve compression through sphenoidal optic foramens. Cranial and mandibular FD and concurrent multiple globoid meningiomas in this case may suggest a mutual influence, which may explain the etiopathogenesis of FD lesions and/or bone hyperdensities adjacent or distant to meningiomas.
Department of Radiology, Gülhane Military Medical School, 06010 Etlik, Ankara, Turkey. tasamus@yahoo.com
Mustafa
M
Taşar
Fatih
F
Ors
Sertaç
S
Yetişer
M Sahin
MS
Uğurel
Taner
T
Uçöz
D000328:Adult; D017271:Craniomandibular Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D005357:Fibrous Dysplasia of Bone / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008579:Meningioma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013101:Sphenoid Sinus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D013701:Temporal Bone / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed