Turkish Neurosurgery 2003 , Vol 13 , Num 1-2
FOREIGN BODY GRANULOMA MIMICKING RECURRENCE OF CONVEXITY MENINGIOMA
Ahmet MENKÜ1, Hidayet AKDEMİR1, Bülent TUCER1, Olgun KONTAŞ2, A. Candan DURAK3
1Department of Neurosurgery, Erciyes University, School of Medicine, Kayseri, Turkey
2Department of Pathology, Erciyes University, School of Medicine, Kayseri, Turkey
3Department of Radiology, Erciyes University, School of Medicine, Kayseri, Turkey
In this report we presented a case of an intracranial foreign body granuloma found in a 54-yearold female patient 10 year after she underwent a craniotomy for a right fronto-temporal convexity meningioma. While recurrence of meningioma is well known, foreign-body granuloma is a very rare intracranial mass lesion. Foreign body granuloma should be included in the differential diagnosis of previously operated recurrent intracranial masses. Keywords : Foreign body granuloma, meningioma, tumor recurrence
Corresponding author : Ahmet Menkü, menkua@hotmail.com