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.

Aphasia

An acquired language impairment of some or all of the abilities to produce or comprehend speech and to read or write.

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PMID (PMCID)
30187570	FEMALE
	Xanthomatous meningioma: A metaplastic or degenerative phenomenon?
	Wong YP, Tan GC, Kumar R. Neuropathology. 2018;38(6):619-623.
	Herein, we report an unusual case of xanthomatous meningioma in an 83-year-old normolipidemic woman, who presented to us with worsening lower limb weakness and global aphasia.
15794842	OTHER	Middle Aged
	Lateral transsulcal approach to asymptomatic trigonal meningiomas with correlative microsurgical anatomy: technical case report.
	Nagata S, Sasaki T. Neurosurgery. 2005;56(2 Suppl):E438; discussion E438.
	Patients with meningiomas on the dominant side exhibited transient amnestic aphasia and dyscalculia, but the symptoms disappeared in a few days or weeks.
15073515	MALE	Middle Aged
	Transient crossed aphasia evidenced by functional brain imagery.
	Khateb A, Martory MD, Annoni JM, Lazeyras F, de Tribolet N, Pegna AJ, Mayer E, Michel CM, Seghier ML. Neuroreport. 2004;15(5):785-90.
	Here, we used neuropsychological and fMRI language tasks in a right-handed subject who presented a crossed aphasia due to a right frontal meningioma.
11976979	MALE	Middle Aged
	Atypical tentorial meningioma 30 years after radiotherapy for a pituitary adenoma.
	Santoro A, Minniti G, Paolini S, Passacantilli E, Missori P, Frati A, Cantore GP. Neurol Sci. 2002;22(6):463-7.
	Over the next 30 years the patient experienced all the known late effects of radiation, including panhypopituitarism, cranial-nerve deficits (II, III and VI), massive radiation necrosis involving the left cerebral hemisphere and causing right hemiparesis and aphasia and, ultimately, an atypical tentorial meningioma with early recurrence after total resection.
16724819	FEMALE	Adult
	Resection of a dominant-hemisphere intraventricular meningioma facilitated by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Case report.
	Curry WT Jr, Cosgrove GR, Buchbinder BR, Ojemann RG. Neurosurg Focus. 2001;10(6):E1.
	The authors used fMR imaging in planning the cortical incision for resection of a large intraventricular trigone meningioma in the dominant hemisphere of a patient who, postoperatively, suffered no aphasia or hemiparesis.
9549489	FEMALE	Middle Aged
	Dynamic aphasia: an inability to select between competing verbal responses?
	Robinson G, Blair J, Cipolotti L. Brain. 1998;121 ( Pt 1):77-89.
	who, following a malignant left frontal meningioma impinging upon Brodmann area 45, presented a 'pure' dynamic aphasia.
7566392	MIXED_SAMPLE	Adult
	Surgical removal of pineal region meningioma--three case reports.
	Matsuda Y, Inagawa T. Neurol Med Chir (Tokyo). 1995;35(8):594-7.
	Three patients with large or huge meningiomas of the pineal region presented with headache, vomiting, gait and visual disturbance, apraxia, agnosia, and transient amnestic aphasia.