Addressing Disparities in the Obesity Epidemic
North Carolina Medical JournalPublished 1 July 2006Open access
Alice S. Ammerman, May May Leung, David N. Cavallo
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We present the CT and MR features of a posttraumatic cutaneous meningioma of the face. We postulate that the patient9s trauma and associated skull fracture resulted in a trapping of extracranial meningeal tissue, which many years later gave rise to a secondary facial meningioma.
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