Multiple meningiomas in a patient with Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome. Case report

J Neurosurg. 2005 Jan;102(1):167-8. doi: 10.3171/jns.2005.102.1.0167.

Abstract

The authors report a case of multiple meningiomas in a 37-year-old woman with Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome. The patient harbored a bifrontal ossifying meningioma and multiple intracranial meningiomas. She underwent surgery for the frontal ossifying meningioma and a right frontoparietal meningioma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain / pathology
  • Brain / surgery
  • CREB-Binding Protein
  • Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Female
  • Frontal Lobe / diagnostic imaging
  • Frontal Lobe / pathology
  • Frontal Lobe / surgery
  • Humans
  • Meningeal Neoplasms / complications*
  • Meningeal Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Meningeal Neoplasms / surgery
  • Meningioma / complications*
  • Meningioma / diagnosis*
  • Meningioma / surgery
  • Nuclear Proteins / genetics
  • Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome / complications*
  • Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome / diagnosis*
  • Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome / genetics
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Trans-Activators / genetics

Substances

  • Nuclear Proteins
  • Trans-Activators
  • CREB-Binding Protein
  • CREBBP protein, human