Davis G A, Fabinyi G C, Kalnins R M, Brazenor G A, Rogers M A
Department of Neurosurgery, Austin Hospital, University of Melbourne, Heidelberg, Victoria.
Neurosurgery. 1995 Mar;36(3):599-604; discussion 604-5. doi: 10.1227/00006123-199503000-00023.
Three patients presenting with an adjacent meningioma and astrocytoma are described. A review of the literature discusses several modes of neuroimaging and the difficulties in diagnosing simultaneous adjacent tumors. Aspects of the pathology and etiology of these tumors are also reviewed.