Orbital, sphenoidal ridge and spinal meningiomas occurring in one patient

From the more than 1500 intracranial meningiomas, 600 spinal meningiomas and 400 orbital tumours operated on in our clinic between 1935-1980 we are reporting the case of a patient with multiple meningiomas which gradually developed in three different regions - right orbital, the left sphenoidal ridge and the upper thoracic region. We have not found any comparable case with these features in the medical literature. From the clinical, radiological and scintigraphic findings we established the coexistence and the gradual development of these multiple meningiomas in three different regions. The correlation of the clinical and paraclinical findings offered us the presumptive diagnosis of multiple orbito-cranial and spinal meningiomas before the last two operations.