ASSOCIATED OLFACTORY GROOVE MENINGIOMA AND ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA

The authors describe the case of a 71-year-old man without signs of ph acomatosis with a history of progressive psychomotory lowering and two simultaneous tumors of the olfactory groove and of the cerebelloponti ne angle, as demonstrated by CT scans, Histologic examinations showed the lesions to be a meningioma and a neurinoma. The rarity and the pos sible pathogenesis of this association are discussed.