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[A juvenile case of radiation-induced meningioma two years after radiation for craniopharyngioma].

Abstract
The patient was a 7-year-old boy who received radiation therapy of 50 Gy after total gross removal of a craniopharyngioma. After two years a follow up CT scan showed a new enhanced lesion in the right temporal tip within the previous irradiation field. Total removal of the tumor was performed and its histological examination showed it to be an atypical meningioma. This atypical meningioma satisfied Cahan's criteria. So we diagnosed this atypical meningioma as radiation-induced meningioma. Immunohistochemically this meningioma stained for Vimentin. An electron-microscopical examination showed neither desmosome nor interdigitation. The score of Ki-67 and BrdU-L. I. was very small. Compared with previously reported juvenile radiation-induced meningioma, the latency was very short. The patient received growth hormone (GH) replacement therapy. We suspected relation between GH replacement therapy and short latency. He was discharged without any new neurological deficits and we haven't detected tumor recurrence for two years.
AuthorsT Kano, A Zama, N Ono, T Nakamura, M Tamura, T Ohe, Y Nakazato
JournalNo shinkei geka. Neurological surgery (No Shinkei Geka) Vol. 22 Issue 4 Pg. 367-70 (Apr 1994) ISSN: 0301-2603 [Print] Japan
PMID8164804 (Publication Type: Case Reports, English Abstract, Journal Article, Review)
Topics
  • Child
  • Craniopharyngioma (radiotherapy)
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Meningeal Neoplasms (etiology, surgery)
  • Meningioma (etiology, surgery)
  • Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced
  • Neoplasms, Second Primary
  • Pituitary Neoplasms (radiotherapy)
  • Radiotherapy (adverse effects)

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