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A Grade I Intracranial Meningioma with Metastasis to Multiple Vertebral Bodies: A Case Report and Literature Review

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Journal Cureus
Date 2020 Dec 17
PMID 33329973
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Abstract

World Health Organization (WHO) grade I meningiomas are slow-growing and typically benign brain tumors that can often be easily removed by surgery and rarely become malignant. We report the case of a WHO grade I meningioma in a 67-year-old man with multiple extracranial metastases.

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