Aj. Mighell et al., MENINGIOMA - AN UNUSUAL FOREHEAD SWELLING - A CASE-REPORT, British journal of oral & maxillofacial surgery, 32(4), 1994, pp. 253-256
Meningiomas are rarely encountered by head and neck clinicians. This r
eport describes a patient with a meningioma presenting uncommonly as a
long-standing forehead mass with minimal symptoms. Investigation iden
tified a large bifrontal meningioma with extra-cranial extension invol
ving the right orbit and forehead. The literature is reviewed with par
ticular reference to extra-cranial meningioma and the case is discusse
d.