Rare case of multiple meningiomas in nonneurofibromatosis patient at unusual locations

Abstract

Multiple meningioma is a condition in which more than one intracranial lesion is seen in different location and these lesions may occur with or without signs of neurofibromatosis. Incidence of multiple meningioma range from 1 to 10% in different series. We report a case of multiple meningioma in a 33 years old female who had 14 intracranial lesions both supratentorially and infratentorially, and underwent surgery for large right lateral intraventricular meningioma. She had two meningiomas located in posterior fossa associated with supratentorial meningioma, which has been rarely reported.

Meningiomatosis in non–neurofibromatosis patient: how we dealt with 8 tumors

“…These are well circumscribed, slow growing lesions and are curable by surgery depending on the sites of its occurrence. 7,8 The term multiple meningioma was given by Cushing and Eisenhardt and defined as equal to or more than 2 spatially separated synchronous or metachronous lesions which occurs in upto 10 % of meningiomas. [9][10][11] Most of meningiomas including multiple meningiomas occur sporadically .Multiple meningiomas are also associated with neurofibromatosis type 2.…”