Combined nasal and skull base pathology: adjacent nasal schwannoma and olfactory groove meningioma

Br J Neurosurg. 2005 Oct;19(5):446-8. doi: 10.1080/02688690500390433.

Abstract

A 55-year-old woman presented with a longstanding history of headache and personality change. Preoperative imaging suggested an olfactory groove meningioma invading the posterior nasal space. Following surgical removal of the lesion histopathology confirmed the presence of both a nasal schwannoma and an olfactory groove meningioma. This dual pathology may represent a variation of neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF-2).

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Meningioma / diagnosis*
  • Meningioma / surgery
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / diagnosis*
  • Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / surgery
  • Neurilemmoma / diagnosis*
  • Neurilemmoma / surgery
  • Nose Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Nose Neoplasms / surgery
  • Skull Base Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Skull Base Neoplasms / surgery