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Published on: July 5, 2021
[A rare case of rapidly progressing primary diffuse meningeal sarcomatosis of the brain and spinal cord]
A A Yakovlev1, S A Yakovlev2, A G Smochilin3
1Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education 'Academician I.P. Pavlov First St. Petersburg State Medical University' of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, Russia; Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education 'St. Petersburg State University', St. Petersburg, Russia; Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education 'North-Western State medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov', St. Petersburg, Russia.
Abstract:
Currently the differential diagnosis of anaplastic meningiomas often is quite complex. An interpretation of the data of radiological studies does not allow the exclusion of diseases with similar clinical course and character of a lesion, such as primary lymphoma and tuberculosis of the central nervous system, neurosarcoidosis and others. The article presents a clinical case, representing a rare and difficult to diagnose variant of anaplastic meningioma with extremely aggressive nature of the current and widespread involvement of the brain and spinal cord.

