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A 58-year-old woman with a 35-year history of left proptosis underwent neuroimaging that revealed a large cystic lesion. Surgery revealed an optic nerve sheath meningioma associated with cyst formation. The cyst was part of the tumor, a phenomenon that is well described in intracranial meningiomas but not in optic nerve sheath meningiomas.

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The paper highlights the role of food, as an instrument of identity and intercultural contact, the contribution of traditional ethnic dishes in the reconstruction of the family context, connected to the migration process, and food as a form of communication in a different social context. It reflects the consequences of the exchange process, in which changes take place both in the cultural traditions of Moldovan immigrants and in Italian customs, due to the fusion of elements and ingredients borrowed through reciprocity, thus diluting the mental and social boundaries.

This article contributes to a wider understanding of the Münchausen syndrome by proxy, which is a form of child abuse, very complex and destructive, difficult to diagnose and individualized. The abuser, most often the mother induce the symptom to the child, for which he addresses and requires the intervention of a specialist. Thus, the victim is subject to medical treatments, often invasive and very painful but unnecessary. The complexity of this type of abuse also consist in the difficulty of an early diagnosis as well as in the anticipated perception of the risk of Münchausen victimization. The paper aims to inform those who are directly or indirectly in contact with problems related to this syndrome.