A 6-year-old girl with an extra-axial mass in the middle cranial fossa: Com sept 2009, case 1

Kenta Masui; Satoshi O. Suzuki; Akira Kondo; Toru Iwaki

doi:10.1111/j.1750-3639.2009.00348.x

A 6-year-old girl with an extra-axial mass in the middle cranial fossa: Com sept 2009, case 1

Kenta Masui, Satoshi O. Suzuki, Akira Kondo, Toru Iwaki

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A 6-year-old Japanese girl presented with psychomotor seizures. Magnetic resonance (MR) images disclosed a mass lesion in the left middle cranial fossa with an internal irregular-shaped area, which was hyperintense on T1-weighted images and hypointense on T2-weighted images. Gross total resection of the tumor was performed through left occipital craniotomy. The tumor was white-to-grayish hard tissue, focally showing blackish pigmentation. Histological, immunohistochemical and electron-microscopical analyses revealed that white-to-grayish hard tissue corresponded to an atypical meningioma, and the blackish pigmentation of the tumor was composed of non-neoplastic, reactive hyperplasia and colonization of meningeal melanocytes in the meningioma tissue. A meningioma with reactive hyperplasia and colonization of meningeal melanocytes is unusual, but it is clinically important to differentiate this entity from other melanocytic tumors.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	269-272
Number of pages	4
Journal	Brain Pathology
Volume	20
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-3639.2009.00348.x
Publication status	Published - Jan 1 2010

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Masui, K., Suzuki, S. O., Kondo, A., & Iwaki, T. (2010). A 6-year-old girl with an extra-axial mass in the middle cranial fossa: Com sept 2009, case 1. Brain Pathology, 20(1), 269-272. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-3639.2009.00348.x

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