Abstract
The authors present a case of post-traumatic intracranial meningioma, selected according to the criteria specified in the relevant literature. Assessment of the clinical characteristics of our patient and those reported in the literature seems to confirm that, in some cases, head trauma may be a factor contributing to the development of meningioma.
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Gli autori riportano un caso di meningioma intracranico post-traumatico. Il caso è stato selezionato in base agli specifici criteri riportati in letteratura. L'analisi delle caratteristiche cliniche del nostro paziente e di quelli riportati in letteratura ha permesso di confermare che il trauma cranico potrebbe essere un fattore predisponente all'evoluzione di un meningioma intracranico.
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Cervoni, L., Celli, P., Maraglino, C. et al. Intracranial meningioma at the site of a previous cranial fracture: case report and review of the literature. Ital J Neuro Sci 17, 79–81 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01995714
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