MULTIPLE MENINGIOMAS
- 1 September 1943
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 50 (3) , 335-341
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1943.02290210113009
Abstract
The following observation on multiple meningiomas was deemed worthy of report because of its rarity and its unusual surgical aspect. According to Echols,1who recently reviewed the literature and added an observation of his own, 53 cases of multiple meningiomas have been recorded hitherto. Multiple meningiomas follow no particular pattern of localization; in fact, the tumors may occur wherever the arachnoid cell clusters described by Schmidt2and Aoyagi and Kyuno3are situated. In most of the cases of multiple meningiomas reported the tumors were intracranial or intracranial and spinal; there were only few instances of multiple spinal meningiomas. The incidence of multiple meningiomas is certainly small as compared with the frequency of single tumors; yet the figures of different authors vary considerably in this respect. Thus, Cushing and Eisenhardt4found 3 cases of multiple meningiomas in a series of 313 cases of intracranial and spinal meningiomas,This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: