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ArticleJournal of Korean Neurosurgical Society2015

Intracranial meningioma with leptomeningeal dissemination : retrospective study with review of the literature.

Ki-Su Park, Ki-Hong Kim, Seong-Hyun Park, Jeong-Hyun Hwang, Dong-Hyun Lee

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Article in Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ki-Su ParkDepartment of Neurosurgery, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea.
Ki-Hong KimDepartment of Neurosurgery, Catholic University of Daegu School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea.
Seong-Hyun ParkDepartment of Neurosurgery, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea.
Jeong-Hyun HwangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea.
Dong-Hyun LeeDepartment of Neurosurgery, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea.
Kyungpook National University · KRCatholic University of Daegu · KR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThe purposes of this article are to present 5 cases of intracranial meningioma with leptomeningeal dissemination (LD) and investigate the characteristics of this disease.

methodsWe present a retrospective case series of 5 females at our institutions (age ranged 21-72 years, mean 54.6 years) diagnosed with LD of an intracranial meningioma after surgery between 1998 and 2013. A database search revealed 45 cases with LD of meningioma in the English literature. Characteristic features were analyzed and compared.

resultsThe incidence rate at our institutions of LD of meningioma was 0.9% (5/534). World Health Organization (WHO) grade was distributed as follows: I : 2, II : 2, and III : 1. Time to LD ranged from 2.5 months to 6.9 years; the patient with WHO grade III had the shortest interval to LD. The patient with an intraventricular meningioma (WHO grade II) had the second shortest interval to LD (1.7 years), and simultaneously revealed both LD and extraneuronal metastases. Four of 5 patients showed a disease progression, with the survival ranging from 1 month to 3.8 years after LD. Based on the literature, the initial tumor was an intraventricular meningioma in 9 patients, and their time to LD was shorter on average (mean 1.9 years). Histologically, 26 of 45 (58%) were initially diagnosed with a WHO grade II or III meningioma, and 6 of 19 patients (32%) with WHO grade I revealed malignant transformation.

conclusionThis study shows that intraventricular location and histologically aggressive features seem to increase the chance of LD of meningioma.

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IntraventricularLeptomeningeal carcinomatosisMalignantMeningioma

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PMCPMC4414769
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