Mandibular meningioma—a rare case report of a second extracranial meningioma and a systematic literature review

• Autor(a) principal: Dionísio, Sílvia Rodrigues
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Ventura, Eduardo Simões, Ferreira, Ângela Tavares, Gonçalves, Joana Bolinha, Saleiro, Rute Vaz, Marques, Hugo Martins, Dias, Alfredo Figueiredo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.16/2669

Meningiomas are benign tumours common in the central nervous system. Primary extracranial meningiomas in the jaws are extremely rare. We performed a systematic review of all the primary extracranial meningioma arising in the jawbones reported in the English-language literature including indexed and non-indexed journals and we report a unique case in our hospital of a man with two primary extracranial meningiomas, the first frontal intradiploic and 16 years later, a second located in the mandible. We found 14 cases with primary jaws meningioma and we report another one. A mandibular predominance was observed with only four cases in the maxilla. Most of them occurred in women, with a mean age of 35.9 years. It is the first published case of a patient with two primary extracranial meningiomas one of them in the mandible, which the gender, age and laterality of the lesion are less frequent.