MENINGIOMA - AN UNUSUAL FOREHEAD SWELLING - A CASE-REPORT

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.