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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Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
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
Munjal, Satyashiva
Srivastava, Amit
Jain, Sunila
Mehta, Veer

DOI
10.4103/ajns.AJNS_219_17
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022111712012682425159
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  • Munjal, Satyashiva
  • Srivastava, Amit
  • Jain, Sunila
  • Mehta, Veer

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