title: Atypical location of a solitary intracranial chondroma without meningeal attachment.
abstract: The case of a 19-year-old female patient with a history of severe headache for several months is presented. Computed tomography (CT) as well as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed an intracranial, space-occupying mass with no meningeal attachment, located in the left frontal lobe. The entire tumour was removed, the pathological examination revealed a chondroma. The origin of this tumour is analysed, the clinical and histological findings are described and the literature is reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany. elvira.peltonen@charite.de
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Peltonen
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Suess
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koenneker
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brock
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kombos
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D002812:Chondroma / Q000473:pathology*; D003399:Craniotomy; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008578:Meninges / Q000473:pathology*; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed