Skull vault plasmacytoma mimicking parasagittal meningioma: “Mini-brain appearance”
Plasmacytomas occur as lesions in soft tissue or bone. Skull vault plasmacytomas are rare lesions comprising 0.7% of all plasmacytomas. Workup for myeloma must be done in such cases to rule out multiple myeloma. Here, we report a case of a 63-year-old female who presented to us with a large skull vault swelling which appeared to mimic a parasagittal meningioma on imaging. Histopathological imaging revealed it to be a plasmacytoma. A retrospective review of the radiology revealed the characteristic “mini-brain appearance” in our case. Literature on the subject is also reviewed.
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Skull vault plasmacytoma mimicking parasagittal meningioma: “Mini-brain appearance” ; volume:14 ; number:01 ; year:2019 ; pages:231-233
Asian journal of neurosurgery ; 14, Heft 01 (2019), 231-233
- Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen
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Munjal, Satyashiva
Srivastava, Amit
Jain, Sunila
Mehta, Veer
- DOI
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10.4103/ajns.AJNS_219_17
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022111712012682425159
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15.08.2025, 07:29 MESZ
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Beteiligte
- Munjal, Satyashiva
- Srivastava, Amit
- Jain, Sunila
- Mehta, Veer