Mandibular meningioma—a rare case report of a second extracranial meningioma and a systematic literature review

• Published in: Journal of surgical case reports Vol. 2020; no. 8; p. rjaa257
• Main Authors: Dionísio, Sílvia Rodrigues, Ventura, Eduardo Simões, Ferreira, Ângela Tavares, Gonçalves, Joana Bolinha, Saleiro, Rute Vaz, Marques, Hugo Martins, Dias, Alfredo Figueiredo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 01.08.2020
• Subjects: Case Series
• ISSN: 2042-8812; 2042-8812
• DOI: 10.1093/jscr/rjaa257

Abstract Meningiomas are benign tumours common in the central nervous system. Primary extracranial meningiomas in the jaws are extremely rare. We performed a systematic review of all the primary extracranial meningioma arising in the jawbones reported in the English-language literature including indexed and non-indexed journals and we report a unique case in our hospital of a man with two primary extracranial meningiomas, the first frontal intradiploic and 16 years later, a second located in the mandible. We found 14 cases with primary jaws meningioma and we report another one. A mandibular predominance was observed with only four cases in the maxilla. Most of them occurred in women, with a mean age of 35.9 years. It is the first published case of a patient with two primary extracranial meningiomas one of them in the mandible, which the gender, age and laterality of the lesion are less frequent.