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Washington University Experience | NEOPLASMS (MENINGIOMA) | Psammomatous | 11A1 Meningioma, psammomatous (Case 11) WM cropped 2
Case 11 History ---- The patient is a 90 year old woman with a clinical complaint of decreased feeling of the left leg since December 1996. She has pain in the right ankle along with numbness in the right leg. MRI showed T6-7 mass with compression of the cord. Clinical diagnosis: T6-7 spinal meningioma. Operative procedure: Laminectomy and resection. ---- 11A1-3 Sections of the extramedullary spinal cord tumor show an extensively calcified psammomatous lesion. The small amount of soft tissue among the psammoma bodies is fibrotic shows small clusters of uniform cells with intranuclear cytoplasmic invagination and vague whorl formation.
