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| Year : 2002 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 326--9 |
Benign meningioma metastasizing through CSF pathways : a case report and review of literature.
TV Ramakrishnamurthy, AV Murty, AK Purohit, C Sundaram
Department of Neurosurgery, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Panjagutta, Hyderabad - 500 082, India., India
Correspondence Address:
T V Ramakrishnamurthy
Department of Neurosurgery, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Panjagutta, Hyderabad - 500 082, India.
India
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PMID: 12391463 
Metastasis of intraventricular meningiomas through CSF pathways is a rarity and only 4 cases have been reported in world literature describing meningiomas which were intraventricular and malignant. Here we report a case of benign intraventricular meningioma which had spread through CSF pathways, the recurrences as well as the primary tumor being benign in nature.
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