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Extracranial osseous metastases from intracranial meningioma
J D Palmer1, P L Cook, D W Ellison
1Department of Neurosurgery, Wessex Neurological Centre, Southampton General Hospital, UK.
British Journal of Neurosurgery
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
A biopsy of a fifth lumbar vertebral lesion confirmed that an intracranial meningioma had metastasized 12 years after the diagnosis of the primary tumour. A literature review reports 25 cases of extracranial osseous metastases from meningioma. The mechanisms of spread are discussed as is the role of surgery in the seeding of such tumours.