Abstract

SOLIS ALFONSO, Lesly; GONZALEZ LOPEZ, Ariel; ROJAS MANRESA, Jorge Luis  and  PINERA, Bárbara Mercedes Paula. Cystic meningioma. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2010, vol.39, n.2, pp.163-169. ISSN 0138-6557.

OBJECTIVE: the presentation of a patient with cystic meningioma an uncommon finding in the neurosurgical practice. DESCRIPTION: a female patient aged 66 with health history seen in emergency department due to convulsions. The physical examination was negative. The findings obtained in single and contrasted tomography to bring about the diagnosis of primary cerebral tumor, a low grade probable astrocytoma versus hemangioblastoma which due to its parietal location could to justify the clinical picture of the patient. INTERVENTION: surgical treatment with a subsequent histological-pathological examination detecting the presence of an angiomatous meningioma. CONCLUSIONS: the cystic meningiomas are a uncommon finding in the neurosurgical practice, however, we must to take into account the there are some imaging signs leading to the preoperative diagnosis as the presence of tail sign, the irrigation of the external carotid or the location in sites of frequent settlement of meningiomas.

Keywords : Cystic meningioma; angiomatous meningioma; tomography.

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