Secretory meningioma with elevated serum carcinoembryonic antigen level

Surg Neurol. 1992 May;37(5):415-8. doi: 10.1016/0090-3019(92)90015-f.

Abstract

We recently encountered a 68-year-old woman with right sphenoid wing meningioma of the secretory type accompanied by an elevated serum carcinoembryonic antigen level. This case was neuroradiologically characterized by marked brain edema. Histologically, the lesion was rated as having meningothelial components and was rich in blood vessels and pseudopsammoma bodies. Carcinoembryonic antigen, epithelial membrane antigen, keratin, and cytokeratin were immunohistochemically detected in the pseudopsammoma bodies and the cells producing these bodies.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Carcinoembryonic Antigen / analysis*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Meningeal Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Meningeal Neoplasms / immunology
  • Meningeal Neoplasms / metabolism*
  • Meninges / diagnostic imaging
  • Meninges / pathology
  • Meningioma / diagnosis
  • Meningioma / immunology
  • Meningioma / metabolism*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Carcinoembryonic Antigen