Meningioma craneofacial. Reporte de un caso / Craniofacial meningioma. Case report

Objective: to describe a craniofacial meningioma. Description: a 50 years old female patient presented progressive headaches and left exoftalmus during the last year. MRI showed a tumoral lesion that involved the etmoidorbitalmaxilary region. Intervention: the lesion was resected through the subfrontal approach after performing a bifrontal craniotomy with a supraorbital osteotomy. Pathology informed meningioma. Postoperatively the patient showed transient left ptosis, diplopia and CSF fistula. After 19 months the patient was asymptomatic and control MRI showed no tumor. Conclusion: the craniofacial meningioma was totally resected using a combined approach with low morbidity at 18 months