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Volume 4 Issue 1 (January - February, 2016)

Case Reports

ANGIOMATOUS MENINGIOMA - DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATION WITH LITERATURE REVIEW
Pavani B., Indrasen Reddy K. ,Vishwaksena Reddy P., Sanjeev Choudri

Angiomatous meningioma (AM) is a rare World Health Organization (WHO) grade I histological subtype of meningioma, comprising 2.1% of all meningiomas. AM is characterized by numerous blood vessels with at least focal classic meningothelial differtentiation. The lesion may be easily misdiagnosed, as they are rarely encountered in clinical practice.  Neuroimaging methods are considered to be pivotal in the initial diagnosis, however a detailed histological examination is considered to be the only gold standard tool for the final diagnosis. A case of  60 year old male patient diagnosed as angiomatous meningioma at our hospital, is presented along with a brief description of WHO classification of meningiomas.
Keywords: Angiomatous meningioma, Peritumoral edema, WHO classification, Histopathological Examination, Immunohistochemistry.

 
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