INTRAMEDULLARY MENINGEAL MELANOCYTOMA - R EPORT OF A CASE AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

A primary benign melanotic tumour was resected twice in the thoracic s pinal cord of a 49-year-old woman. The patient had complained of low b ack pains, obstipation and mictional urgency for two years. She develo ped a partial Brown-Sequard's syndrome at th10-th12 level. The tumour showed the histological and immunohistochemical features of a meningea l melanocytoma. The following up was marked by tumoral seeding in the lumbosacral region and later in the cerebral hemispheres, which lead t o death 4 years after the diagnosis. This is a survey of the clinical and morphological characteristics of meningeal melanocytoma and demons trates the risk of secundary dissemination of this primary benign tumo ur