Pediatric age, posterior fossa meningioma.

Neurosciences (Riyadh)

From the Department of Neurosurgery (Onen, Yüvrük), VM Maltepe Medicalpark Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery (Sarikaya, Naderi), Umraniye Teaching and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.

Published: April 2021

Meningiomas are benign, slow-growing tumors originating from arachnoid gap cells. They constitute 15%-20% of all intracranial tumors in adults and 04%-4% in the pediatric age group. Meningiomas in the posterior fossa in the pediatric period do not initially come to mind. In the case presented here, there was a cystic meningioma showing heterogenous contrast and obstructive hydrocephaly was observed associated with 4th ventricle pressure. the tumor was totally removed, then the ventriculo peritoneal shunt was applied.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8024135PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2021.2.20200151DOI Listing

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