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ArticleJournal of neurological surgery reports2016

Multiple Meningiomas in a Patient with Cowden Syndrome.

Margaret Pain, Armine Darbinyan, Mary Fowkes, Raj Shrivastava

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Article in Journal of neurological surgery reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Margaret PainDepartment of Neurosurgery, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States.
Armine DarbinyanDepartment of Pathology, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States.
Mary FowkesDepartment of Pathology, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States.
Raj ShrivastavaDepartment of Neurosurgery, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCowden syndrome is a rare, multisystem disease manifesting with increased hamartomas and neoplasms. Though meningioma has been documented in patients with Cowden syndrome, the relationship between these two phenomena is still unclear. CASE DESCRIPTION: We report a case of a 43-year-old female patient with a known PTEN mutation and clinical history of Cowden syndrome. A workup of headache demonstrated two skull base meningiomas. At the time of surgery, several additional tiny meningiomas were detected in the same region.

conclusionsThe development of multiple meningiomas in a patient with predisposition for tumor is more than coincidental. Though PTEN mutations and deletions have not been shown to be critical for meningioma development, this case challenges that conclusion. In light of recent genetic advances in meningioma molecular pathogenesis, the role of the PTEN/AKT/PI3K pathway is discussed.

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Cowden syndromemeningiomaPTEN

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PMID27563534
PMCPMC4996671

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