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.

Pyelonephritis

An inflammation of the kidney involving the parenchyma of kidney, the renal pelvis and the kidney calices.

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PMID (PMCID)
10335574	FEMALE	Middle Aged
	[Meningioma with a peritumoral abscess].
	Onopchenko EV, Grigorian IuA. Zh Vopr Neirokhir Im N N Burdenko. 1999;(1):28-30.
	The paper presents a rare case of meningioma associated with peritumoral abscess formed in a 63-year-old female undergone right nephrectomy for abscessed pyelonephritis and drainage of gluteal abscesses 3 months before admission.
956586	MALE	Adult
	Postmortem study of a case of Werner's syndrome.
	Tokunaga M, Mori S, Sato K, Nakamura K, Wakamatsu E. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1976;24(9):407-11.
	Major findings included general microsplanchnia, extreme atrophy of the testes and skin, calcified aortic atherosclerosis, an increase of basophils in the pituitary, aspiration pneumonia, chronic pyelonephritis and a meningioma in the occipital area of the brain.