Authors: Dimitris Zevgaridis Christos Tsonidis Nikiforos Kapranos Ioannis Venizelos Parmenion Tsitsopoulos Philippos Tsitsopoulos
Publish Date: 2009/04/09
Volume: 151, Issue: 12, Pages: 1705-
Abstract
A 45 year old female renal transplant recipient presented with headaches of 3 months duration Clinical and radiological evaluation revealed an approximately 4x4cm rounded enhancing mass at the left temporal pole At surgery the mass had dural attachment and clinically radiographically and macroscopically resembled a meningioma Histopathological analysis revealed a leiomyoma EpsteinBarr virus EBV DNA was demonstrated within the tumour cell nuclei by the in situ hybridisation techniqueThis is an interesting paper which describes a case of EBV associated primary intracranial leiomyoma in an organ transplant recipient With large numbers of patients suffering from long term immunosuppression such a report is useful in highlighting the need to consider other rarer entities in the differential diagnosis of intracranial lesions within this group of patients
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