Intracranial meningiomas following irradiation therapy for brain tumors
1Department of Neuropathology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa.
Folia Neuropathologica
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
Two cases of radiation-induced meningiomas following therapeutic irradiation given for primary diagnosed malignant brain tumor are presented. The meningiomas, histologically different from the initial brain tumor, appeared 15 and 21 years after high-dose brain irradiation. The possible risk of carcinogenesis within the CNS resulted from therapeutic cranial irradiation is stressed.


