title: Significant improvement of fibromyalgia symptoms after excision of large meningioma--a case report.
abstract: We report a very unusual case of a 42-year-old patient with confirmed fibromyalgia and juvenile onset arthritis whose symptoms dramatically improved after surgical excision of a large, dominant hemisphere, parafalcine meningioma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Wales , Cardiff , UK.
authors.forename: Muhammad Imran
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Bhatti
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hollingworth
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Leach
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001171:Arthritis, Juvenile / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D005356:Fibromyalgia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008579:Meningioma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures; D012074:Remission Induction; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D016896:Treatment Outcome