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Washington University Experience | NEOPLASMS (MENINGIOMA) | Gross Pathology | 26A1 Meningioma, olfactory groove (Case 26)_1
Case 26 History ---- The decedent was a 92-year-old woman with history of “brain cancer”, stroke, sepsis, peripheral vascular disease, congestive heart failure, atrial fibrillation and recent pneumonia. She was ventilator and gastric tube dependent and stayed at a nursing home. Her son noticed increased left arm swelling and blood-tinged urine at a visit and transferred her to BJH. On arrival at hospital, all extremities were cool to touch with bilateral upper extremity swelling. The patient was hypoxic, hypotensive and bradycardic and rapidly degenerated into wide complex rhythm followed by cardiac arrest. ---- At autopsy the weight of the unfixed brain was 1050g. ---- There is a 3.8 X 2.6 X 1 cm tan-white mass involving the medial portion of the inferior frontal lobe (olfactory groove).
