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Coexisting cranial and multiple spinal meningioma in a child-report of a case

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Von Ricklinghausen’s disease is commonly associated with simultaneous cranial and spinal meningioma but these are not true meningiomas. Craniospinal meningiomas without Von Ricklinghausen’s disease are very rare. We report a 13-year-old girl who presented with two episodes of right focal seizure with secondary generalisation of three year’s duration, weakness of both lower limbs for 6 months, and retention of urine of three month’s duration. MRI brain showed enhancing lesion in the left fronto-parietal region. MRI spine revealed enhancing intradural extramedullary lesion at D4-5, D9-10, and L1-2. The tumours were excised completely in a single stage, first by craniotomy then by multi level laminectomy. On histology the spinal meningioma had predominant meningothiliomatous. We followed up for 6 months and the patient recovered with power grade 4/5 both lower limb.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, India

    Sujeet Kumar Shukla, Adarsh Trivedi, Vivek Sharma & Kulwant Singh

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Shukla, S.K., Trivedi, A., Sharma, V. et al. Coexisting cranial and multiple spinal meningioma in a child-report of a case. J Neurooncol 102, 115–119 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11060-010-0299-1

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