Meningioma presenting as recurrent transient cerebral ischemia and intracranial hemorrhage.

Intracranial tumors are sometimes known to appear first as apoplexy. This report describes a patient with a meningioma of the falx who experienced acute onset of symptoms due to intracerebral and subarachnoid hemorrhage and following a history of transient ischemic attacks on exertion. The tumor was an angioblastic-meningioma. The probably source of bleeding and the mechanism of transient ischemic episodes provoked by exertion are discussed.