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.

Hemiplegia

Paralysis (complete loss of muscle function) in the arm, leg, and in some cases the face on one side of the body.


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PMID (PMCID)
9686238
 FEMALE Middle Aged
[Left temporal meningioma disclosed by ipsilateral hemiplegia].
Donnet A, Martini P, Dufour H, Grisoli F.
Neurochirurgie. 1997;43(5):319-21.
[Left temporal meningioma disclosed by ipsilateral hemiplegia].
9686238
 FEMALE Middle Aged
[Left temporal meningioma disclosed by ipsilateral hemiplegia].
Donnet A, Martini P, Dufour H, Grisoli F.
Neurochirurgie. 1997;43(5):319-21.
The ipsilateral hemiplegia syndrome was classically described by Ectors in relation to a meningioma of the foot of the third frontal circonvolution.
1632272
 MIXED_SAMPLE Adult
[Rehabilitation of oro-pharyngeal dysphagia of neurogenic etiology using radiological examination: preliminary results].
Ruoppolo G, Virdia P, Romualdi P, Formisano R, Amitrano A, Benvegnu B, Fanucci A, Cerro P, Ietto F, Metastasio F.
Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital. 1992;12 Suppl 36:1-27.
One of them had a multi-infarct encephalopathy, two a spastic hemiplegia f.b.c., a fourth a cerebellar syndrome and the last a sequela of meningioma removal of the ponto-cerebellar angle with peripheral paralysis of the right VII, IX, X, XI cranial nerves.
7170007
 MALE Adult
[Limits of preventive extra-intracranial anastomoses. A propos of a meningioma of the clinoid process with stenosis of the internal carotid artery].
Fardoun R, Mercier P, Guy G.
Neurochirurgie. 1982;28(6):391-3.
However, excision of the meningioma, which entailed resection of the carotid segment, resulted in hemiplegia.