Cerdá-Nicolás M, López-Ginés C, Barcia-Salorio J, Llombart-Bosch A. Evolution to malignancy in a recurrent meningioma: morphological and cytogenetic findings.
Clin Neuropathol 1998;
17:210-5. [PMID:
9707336]
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Abstract
The original tumor and 4 relapses of a recurrent meningioma were studied. We analyzed and compared these recurrences by histopathology, PCNA labelling index (PCNA-LI), nuclear count, and cytogenetical findings. The most important changes in the evolution to aggressivity were: recurrences at progressively shorter intervals, increases in the PCNA-LI, and micronecrosis; histological changes such as sheeting and increase of the extracellular matrix and a gradual transformation to a clonally complex karyotype.
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