Suranagi Vijayalaxmi V, Maste Praful, Malur Prakash R
Deprtment of Pathology, J N Medical College and KLEs Dr. Prabhakar Kore Hospital and MRC, Belgaum, Karnataka, India.
Asian J Neurosurg. 2015 Jan-Mar;10(1):39-41. doi: 10.4103/1793-5482.151508.
We present a rare case of the primary intracranial melanoma in the right parafalcine frontal region in a 65-year-old male. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging showed a Space occupying lesion in the right parafalcine frontal region with necrosis, vasogenic edema and mass effect. A rather well-defined, dark brown-black tumor was totally removed and histologically diagnosed as malignant melanoma. The patient improved after surgery. In our case, no systemic melanomas were found in close clinical examinations, there was a single nodular tumor attached to the leptomeninges and a favorable outcome was obtained by surgical treatment alone. Primary central nervous system melanomas have rarely been reported, and this case is reported for its rarity.