Rhabdoid meningioma: a new subtype of malignant meningioma also apt to occur in children.
METHODS
The case of a 14-year-old girl who presented with a 2-week history of raised intracranial pressure is reported. A left frontal extra-axial tumor was totally removed, whose histopathologic diagnosis was rhabdoid meningioma (RM).


CONCLUSIONS
Rhabdoid meningiomas constitute a special malignant phenotype of meningioma that has been recently included in the WHO classification of tumors of the nervous system. Usually, RMs affect middle-aged and elderly individuals. We report the fourth case of a RM occurring in a child to illustrate that the diagnosis of this tumor subtype, given its prognostic implications, must also be considered in pediatric patients.
Martínez-Lage
Juan F
JF
Regional Service of Neurosurgery, Virgen de la Arrixaca University Hospital, El Palmar, Murcia, Spain. juanf.martínezlage@carm.es
Ferri Niguez
Belén
B
Sola
Joaquín
J
Pérez-Espejo
Miguel A
MA
Ros de San Pedro
Javier
J
Fernandez-Cornejo
Víctor
V
D000293:Adolescent; D017668:Age of Onset; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019586:Intracranial Hypertension; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D008579:Meningioma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D018335:Rhabdoid Tumor / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery