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Meningioma Arising From the Trigeminal Nerve: A Case Report and Literature Review

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We report a 69-year-old woman with a meningioma who presented with a 9-month history of progressive facial numbness in the distribution of the left mandibular nerve and left facial palsy. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a mass in and around the left Meckel's cave (MC). The tumor was totally resected through a lateral suboccipital and subtemporal combined approach. It appeared to be a schwannoma, because it adhered firmly to the cisternal portion of the trigeminal nerve without dural attachment. Histopathological examination revealed that it was a meningothelial meningioma. We concluded that the tumor originated from the arachnoid cap cells within the trigeminal nerve sheath, not from the dura mater in the MC.

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    Yasunori Fujimoto, Amami Kato, Masaaki Taniguchi, Motohiko Maruno & Toshiki Yoshimine

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Fujimoto, Y., Kato, A., Taniguchi, M. et al. Meningioma Arising From the Trigeminal Nerve: A Case Report and Literature Review. J Neurooncol 68, 185–187 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:NEON.0000027774.19801.af

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