Meningioma

A rare, mostly benign, primary tumor of the meninges (arachnoid cap cells), usually located in the supratentorial compartment, commonly appearing in the sixth and seventh decade of life, clinically silent in most cases or causing hyperostosis close to the tumor and resulting in focal bulging and localized pain in less than 10% of cases. Additional features may include headache, seizures, gradual personality changes (apathy and dementia), anosmia, impaired vision, exophthalmos, hearing loss, ataxia, dysmetria, hypotonia, nystagmus, and rarely spontaneous bleeding.

Ataxia

Cerebellar ataxia refers to ataxia due to dysfunction of the cerebellum. This causes a variety of elementary neurological deficits including asynergy (lack of coordination between muscles, limbs and joints), dysmetria (lack of ability to judge distances that can lead to under- oder overshoot in grasping movements), and dysdiadochokinesia (inability to perform rapid movements requiring antagonizing muscle groups to be switched on and off repeatedly).

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PMID (PMCID)
25828500	MIXED_SAMPLE	Middle Aged
	Motion-related vascular abnormalities at the craniocervical junction: illustrative case series and literature review.
	Ravindra VM, Neil JA, Mazur MD, Park MS, Couldwell WT, Taussky P. Neurosurg Focus. 2015;38(4):E6.
	The patient in Case 2 was a 53-year-old woman who underwent elective resection of a right temporal meningioma and who experienced postoperative drowsiness, dysphagia, and mild right-arm ataxia.
22065911 (3207058)	FEMALE	Middle Aged
	Dura mater graft-associated Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: the first case in Korea.
	Kim HL, Do JY, Cho HJ, Jeon YC, Park SJ, Ma HI, Song JH, Lee Y, Choi H, Choi KC, Kim YS, Zerr I, Kallenberg K, Kim YJ. J Korean Med Sci. 2011;26(11):1515-7.
	A 54-yr-old woman, who underwent resection of the meningioma in the left frontal region and received a dura mater graft 23 yr ago presented with dysesthesia followed by psychiatric symptoms and ataxia.
9736091	MALE
	Combined transpetrosal and fronto-orbito-zygomatic approach to a giant skull based meningioma: a case report.
	Eguchi T, Tamaki N, Kurata H, Nagashima T, Fujita A, Nakamura M, Hara Y. Surg Neurol. 1998;50(3):272-6.
	A 15-year-old boy presented with a meningioma that caused a left hearing loss, dysarthria, and cerebellar ataxia.
7964980	MIXED_SAMPLE	Adult
	Dysplastic gangliocytoma of the cerebellum (Lhermitte-Duclos disease) and its relation to the multiple hamartoma syndrome (Cowden disease).
	Rimbau J, Isamat F. J Neurooncol. 1994;18(3):191-7.
	Particular attention is placed in one of the cases, that of a young woman with a short clinical history of episodic symptoms of intracranial hypertension, dizziness and ataxia, with a concomitant frontal meningioma and in the general context of a multiple hamartoma syndrome (Cowden disease).
8306473	MIXED_SAMPLE	Adult
	Pituitary stone: two cases of densely calcified thyrotrophin-secreting pituitary adenomas.
	Webster J, Peters JR, John R, Smith J, Chan V, Hall R, Scanlon MF. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 1994;40(1):137-43.
	At the age of 56, she developed symptoms of intermittent ataxia and diplopia, culminating in a focal seizure, and was found on CT scan to have, in addition to the pituitary lesion, a parasagittal meningioma.
3704430	FEMALE	Middle Aged
	[Predominantly crural hemiparesis and ipsilateral ataxia caused by meningioma of the falx cerebri].
	Mizon JP, Rosa A. Rev Neurol (Paris). 1986;142(1):68-9.
	In a 61 year-old woman with a right crural hemiparesis, and a history of progressive development of ipsilateral ataxia, CT scan showed a meningioma of falx cerebri confirmed by neurosurgery.
3704430	FEMALE	Middle Aged
	[Predominantly crural hemiparesis and ipsilateral ataxia caused by meningioma of the falx cerebri].
	Mizon JP, Rosa A. Rev Neurol (Paris). 1986;142(1):68-9.
	[Predominantly crural hemiparesis and ipsilateral ataxia caused by meningioma of the falx cerebri].
1219088	FEMALE	Middle Aged
	Multiple crossed false localizing signs in a posterior fossa tumour.
	Maurice-Williams RS. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1975;38(12):1232-4.
	A laterally placed posterior fossa meningioma gave rise to contralateral cerebellar ataxia and palsies of the fifth, ninth, and tenth cranial nerves.