Pleural metastasis of anaplastic meningioma

G D Marijn Veerman; Martin J van den Bent; Marthe S Paats

doi:10.1016/j.radcr.2020.10.020

Pleural metastasis of anaplastic meningioma

Radiol Case Rep. 2020 Oct 19;15(12):2668-2671. doi: 10.1016/j.radcr.2020.10.020. eCollection 2020 Dec.

Authors

G D Marijn Veerman¹, Martin J van den Bent², Marthe S Paats^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Oncology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Erasmus University Medical Centre, PO box 2040, 3000 CB, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
² Department of Neurology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Pulmonology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Abstract

A 52-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with several days of progressive dyspnoea and thoracic pain. Her medical history included a (recurrent) anaplastic meningioma, for which she was treated with surgery and radiotherapy. A chest X-ray showed occurrence of total opacification of the left lower lobe and a chest computed tomography demonstrated a pleural mass of 12 × 9 × 15 cm in the left lower lobe. Biopsy of the pleural mass revealed a metastasis of the patient's anaplastic meningioma. Extracranial metastases from meningioma are extremely uncommon (≤ 0.1%-0.2% of cases), but important for a patient's prognosis.

Keywords: Anaplastic meningioma; Pleural metastasis.

Publication types

Case Reports