Fourth ventricular meningioma in an adult: Case report and review of the literature
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Rajendra Shrestha; Zhang Yue-Kang; You Chao
- Source
- Indian Journal of Neurosurgery, Vol 01, Iss 02, Pp 161-164 (2012)
- Subject
- fourth ventricle
meningioma
surgery
Surgery
RD1-811
Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system
RC346-429
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2277-954X
2277-9167
Meningiomas are one of the most common clinical entities in everyday neurosurgical practice. Most meningiomas are extra-axial dural-based lesions. They typically occur along intradural venous sinuses, at the confluences of multiple cranial sutures and also others sites where arachnoid granulations and arachnoid cell rests occur. Most of these tumors also do occur within the lateral ventricles than third ventricle but they are exceptional in fourth ventricle thought to arise from the choroid plexus without dural attachment. Here we present two cases of fourth ventricle meningiomas.