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Daiya Ishigaki1, Hiroshi Arai, Masayuki Sasoh
1Department of Neurosurgery, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan.
Abstract:
A 14-year-old boy presented with a very rare meningioma in the posterior cranial fossa without dural attachment. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a 3-cm, well-circumscribed, heterogeneously enhanced, round mass without dural tail sign in the right side of the posterior fossa. Right vertebral angiography revealed very faint tumor staining supplied by the right posterior inferior cerebellar artery. Total removal of the tumor was performed. Intraoperatively, the mass exhibited no attachment to the dura mater, cerebellar parenchyma, or choroid plexus, but was firmly attached to the arachnoid tissue near the foramen of Luschka. Histological and immunohistochemical studies established the diagnosis of meningothelial meningioma (World Health Organization grade I).
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