Key Clinical Message: Conventional treatments of anaplastic meningioma include surgery and radiotherapy. Temozolomide is also an option. Metastases to extracerebral organs are very rare and hardly manageable. Antiangiogenic drugs could represent a salvage therapy.
Abstract: Anaplastic meningioma is an unusual tumor subtype that rarely involves organs outside the brain. In our case, a patient with cerebral meningioma developed lung metastases after 19 years from the initial tumor appearance. This unpredictable behavior could make complex the diagnosis.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10397478 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7763 | DOI Listing |
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