Osteoblastic meningioma with turtle shell: Different entity from calcified meningioma.
Bone formation within meningioma is secondary to metaplasia of the meningothelial cells into osteoblastic cells. This needs to be differentiated form the commonly seen calcification. We describe a rare case of osteobalstic meningioma in which bony trabeculae were seen within meningothelial cells.
Department of Neurosurgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.
Pravin
P
Salunke
Department of Neurosurgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.
Ashish
A
Aggarwal
Department of Neurosurgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.
Sameer
S
Futane
Department of Histopathology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.
Ritambhara
R
Nada
Department of Histopathology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.
Debasis
D
Gochhait
Metaplastic meningioma; osteoblastic meningioma
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