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.

Germinoma

A type of undifferentiated germ cell tumor that may be benign or malignant.

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PMID (PMCID)
21677623	MALE	Young Adult
	Primary frontoparietal lobe convexity germinoma with dural invasion mimics meningioma.
	Ji X, Chao X, Fei Z, Zhao Y. Neurosciences (Riyadh). 2011;16(3):276-80.
	Based on this case study, we suggest that germinoma might be a possible diagnosis when a tumor of the hemispheres with dura invasion mimics meningioma, especially in young patients.
21677623	MALE	Young Adult
	Primary frontoparietal lobe convexity germinoma with dural invasion mimics meningioma.
	Ji X, Chao X, Fei Z, Zhao Y. Neurosciences (Riyadh). 2011;16(3):276-80.
	Here, we describe an unusual case of a giant primary intracranial germinoma located in the intracranial hemisphere with radiological findings that mimicked a meningioma.
21677623	MALE	Young Adult
	Primary frontoparietal lobe convexity germinoma with dural invasion mimics meningioma.
	Ji X, Chao X, Fei Z, Zhao Y. Neurosciences (Riyadh). 2011;16(3):276-80.
	Primary frontoparietal lobe convexity germinoma with dural invasion mimics meningioma.
20075823	FEMALE
	Clear-cell meningioma of the anterior cranial fossa. Case report and review of the literature.
	Pizzoni C, Sarandria C, Pierangeli E. J Neurosurg Sci. 2009;53(3):113-7.
	Different diagnoses for CCM include lesions with clear cell appearance such metastases of renal cell carcinoma and sarcoma, hemangioblastoma, ependymoma, oligodendroglioma, germinoma, chordoma, pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma, lipid-rich glioblastoma, microcystic and lipomatous meningioma.
12134912	FEMALE	Adult
	Production of human chorionic gonadotropin-beta subunit associated with an osteolytic meningioma. Case report.
	Rau CS, Lin JW, Liang CL, Lee TC, Chen HJ, Lu K. J Neurosurg. 2002;97(1):197-9.
	The authors believe that meningioma should be considered in the differential diagnosis of choriocarcinoma, embryonal cell tumor, germinoma, and metastatic ovarian tumor associated with elevated levels of beta-HCG.
10867806	FEMALE	Adult
	Suprasellar chordoid glioma.
	Ricoy JR, Lobato RD, Baez B, Cabello A, Martinez MA, Rodriguez G. Acta Neuropathol. 2000;99(6):699-703.
	We discuss the differential diagnosis between chordoma, chordoid meningioma, germinoma and pituitary adenoma.
8903292	MIXED_SAMPLE	Child
	Neoplasms of the pineal region.
	Prahlow JA, Challa VR. South Med J. 1996;89(11):1081-7.
	To emphasize the need for tissue diagnosis, we present five cases of pineal region tumors, including germinoma, pinealoblastoma, pinealoma, astrocytoma, and meningioma.
8733970	MALE	Adult
	Radiation-induced meningioma evaluated with positron emission tomography with fludeoxyglucose F 18.
	Kado H, Ogawa T, Hatazawa J, Iwase M, Kanno I, Okudera T, Uemura K. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 1996;17(5):937-8.
	We describe a patient with radiation-induced meningioma 12 years after cranial irradiation for ectopic germinoma.
2540253	MALE	Child
	Meningioma, astrocytoma and germinoma: case presentations of three intracranial tumors.
	Hodges K. J Neurosci Nurs. 1989;21(2):113-21.
	Meningioma, astrocytoma and germinoma: case presentations of three intracranial tumors.
2540253	MALE	Child
	Meningioma, astrocytoma and germinoma: case presentations of three intracranial tumors.
	Hodges K. J Neurosci Nurs. 1989;21(2):113-21.
	Two of the more common tumor types are discussed--meningioma and astrocytoma, along with one less common type, the germinoma.
3185884	MALE	Adult
	Unusual clinical presentation of a presumed pineal germinoma with two disseminated lesions.
	Nakano S, Uehara H, Kinoshita K. Neurosurgery. 1988;23(2):235-6.
	Neither angiography nor magnetic resonance imaging could provide the differential diagnosis between germinoma and meningioma.