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SUBMITTER: Umana GE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8468587 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Umana Giuseppe Emmanuele GE Scalia Gianluca G Vats Atul A Pompili Gianluca G Barone Fabio F Passanisi Maurizio M Graziano Francesca F Maugeri Rosario R Tranchina Maria Grazia MG Cosentino Sebastiano S Ippolito Massimo M Tomasi Santino Ottavio SO Raudino Giuseppe G Chaurasia Bipin B Iacopino Domenico Gerardo DG Nicoletti Giovanni Federico GF Cicero Salvatore S Strigari Lidia L Perrotta Rosario Emanuele RE
Life (Basel, Switzerland) 20210909 9
Meningiomas represent the most common benign histological tumor of the central nervous system. Usually, meningiomas are intracranial, showing a typical dural tail sign on brain MRI with Gadolinium, but occasionally they can infiltrate the skull or be sited extracranially. We present a systematic review of the literature on extracranial meningiomas of the head and neck, along with an emblematic case of primary extracranial meningioma (PEM), which provides further insights into PEM management. A l ...[more]