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Meningiomas (m.) are tumors of adulthood with a predilection for the female sex, especially the spinal ones. They are mesodermal tumors which originate from the outer sheet of the arachnoid. According to their staminal mesodermal cell, they may differentiate as fibroblastic, chondroblastic, etc. They vary in histologic type depending on the amount of fibroblasts (transitional and fibroblastic m.), of calcium deposits (psammomatous m.), and on the content of meningeal cells grouped in the syncytial structures, which are poor in connective fibers (syncytial or meningothelial m.). Less common types are the angioblastic, xanthomatous, papillary and atypical m. The latter tumor, with mitoses and cell atypias, behaves like a sarcoma and generally has local malignancy.

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  1. Service of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, USA

    Lucia Cecconi

  2. Division of Neurosurgery, Istituto Regina Elena, Rome, Italy

    Alfredo Pompili & Fabrizio Caroli

  3. Institute of Radiology, Medical School, Università degli Studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’, Rome, Italy

    Ettore Squillaci

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Cecconi, L., Pompili, A., Caroli, F., Squillaci, E. (1992). Meningiomas. In: MRI Atlas of Central Nervous System Tumors. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9178-1_6

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