title: Meningioangiomatosis in a patient with progressive focal neurological deficit-case report and review of literature.
abstract: Meningioangiomatosis (MA) represents a vascular hamartoma accompanied by meningothelial cell proliferation. It generally becomes symptomatic with difficult to control seizures, though in some patients it may be asymptomatic. We present the case of a 41-year-old male patient with a newly developed central distal monoparesis of the left leg. Cranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and further diagnostic characterization via (18)F-Fluoro-Ethyl-Tyrosine positron emission tomography ((18)F-FET-PET) indicated a low-grade glioma. Histopathological diagnosis revealed a meningioangiomatosis. The clinical, radiological and neuropathological findings of this rare constellation are described and discussed with the actual literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany. amr@abdulazim.de
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Abdulazim
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Samis Zella
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rapp
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gierga
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Langen
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Steiger
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sabel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000798:Angiomatosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005910:Glioma / Q000175:diagnosis; D006222:Hamartoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg; D008297:Male; D010243:Paralysis / Q000209:etiology*