Atypical primary pulmonary meningioma: a report of a case suspected of being a lung metastasis.
Primary extracranial and extraspinal meningiomas are very rare tumours, and primary pulmonary ones are even more uncommon. They present as a solitary pulmonary nodule, and most of them are benign, except for three cases. We describe a primitive atypical pulmonary meningioma first suspected of being a metastasis in a patient during follow-up ten years after therapy for breast cancer.
Division of Pathology, European Institute of Oncology, 20141 Milan, Italy.
Daniela
D
Lepanto
Division of Pathology, European Institute of Oncology, 20141 Milan, Italy.
Fausto
F
Maffini
Division of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, 20141 Milan, Italy.
Francesco
F
Petrella
Division of Nuclear Medicine, European Institute of Oncology, 20141 Milan, Italy.
Marzia
M
Colandrea
Division of Medical Oncology, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy.
Carlo
C
Putzu
Division of Pathology, European Institute of Oncology, 20141 Milan, Italy.
Massimo
M
Barberis
Division of Nuclear Medicine, European Institute of Oncology, 20141 Milan, Italy.
Giovanni
G
Paganelli
Division of Pathology, European Institute of Oncology, 20141 Milan, Italy ; University of Milan School of Medicine, 20122 Milan, Italy.
Giuseppe
G
Viale
atypical meningioma; lung metastasis; meningioma