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Primary meningeal pheochromocytoma: case report
Sandro Mercuri1, Roberto Gazzeri, Marcelo Galarza
1Dipartimento di scienze Neurologiche - Neurochirurgia, Rome, Italy.
Objective And Importance:
Intracranial pheochromocytomas are extremely rare tumors. Reported cases include metastatic tumors without known cases of primary pheochromocytomas.
Clinical Presentation:
A female patient with a history of a surgically treated adrenal pheochromocytoma presented 23 years later with headache, nausea and blood hypertension. A head CT scan demonstrated a right temporoparietal meningeal heterogeneous lesion with a surrounding hyperdense ring. No other lesions were disclosed.
Intervention:
The lesion developed in the inner and outer surface of the dura without brain infiltration and it was totally resected. The patient is free of disease 6 years after brain surgery.
Conclusion:
To our knowledge this is the first reported case of a primary meningeal pheochromocytoma.
