Meningiomas in children.
OBJECTIVE
Pediatric meningioma is a rare diagnosis. This retrospective review seeks to elucidate pertinent characteristics of pediatric patients presenting with meningioma.


METHODS
The Seattle Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center brain tumor database was surveyed from 1940 through 2004. Twenty patients were identified.


RESULTS
The median age of the 20 patients was 13 years. Five patients had radiation-induced meningiomas. Five patients had neurofibromatosis type 2. Ten patients had spontaneously arising meningiomas, 2 of which were malignant.


CONCLUSIONS
Patients with spontaneously arising meningiomas were younger than those with identified risk factors. There was no recurrence in patients with radiation-induced meningiomas. The only death occurred in a patient with a malignant meningioma.
Greene
Stephanie
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Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA. Greene1hinz@pol.net
Nair
Nathan
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Ojemann
Jeffrey G
JG
Ellenbogen
Richard G
RG
Avellino
Anthony M
AM
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D008579:Meningioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D012189:Retrospective Studies