Is a benign meningioma always an indolent tumor?

• Published in: Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 94 - 95
• Main Authors: Menal, Patricia, García-Tirado, Francisco Javier, Embún, Raúl, Rivas, Juan José
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 01-07-2011
• Subjects: Biopsy; Disease Progression; Humans; Lung Neoplasms - secondary; Lung Neoplasms - surgery; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Meningeal Neoplasms - drug therapy; Meningeal Neoplasms - pathology; Meningioma - drug therapy; Meningioma - secondary; Meningioma - surgery; Middle Aged; Pleural Neoplasms - secondary; Pleural Neoplasms - surgery; Solitary Pulmonary Nodule - secondary; Solitary Pulmonary Nodule - surgery; Thoracotomy; Time Factors; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Treatment Outcome
• ISSN: 1569-9293; 1569-9285
• DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2011.269076

Meningiomas are considered to be slow-growing tumors that compress the brain without invading it. The development of metastases is uncommon, with a predilection for the lungs, liver, lymph nodes, and bone. We report the case of a 58-year-old man, diagnosed with a solitary pulmonary nodule in the left lower lobe that was resected through a thoracotomy. The pathology revealed lung metastases of an undiagnosed meningothelial meningioma. The evolution of the patient's case, the second case in the literature of this kind of benign tumor that has developed pleural metastases, was unsatisfactory.