title: Rhabdoid meningioma: a new subtype of malignant meningioma also apt to occur in children.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Regional Service of Neurosurgery, Virgen de la Arrixaca University Hospital, El Palmar, Murcia, Spain. juanf.martínezlage@carm.es
authors.forename: Juan F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Martínez-Lage
authors.forename: Belén
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ferri Niguez
authors.forename: Joaquín
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sola
authors.forename: Miguel A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Pérez-Espejo
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ros de San Pedro
authors.forename: Víctor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Fernandez-Cornejo
mesh_terms: 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