Grade I Meningioma in a cadaver – A case report

Abstract

In a routine dissection of anatomy department in Ashwini Rural Medical College and Research Centre Kumbhari, Solapur, Maharashtra. While removing the brain from the cadaveric skull.Noticed a small tumor of measuring 1.3cm in length, 1.3cm in breadth and 1.2cm in height, situated at the orbital surface of the brain in the gyrus rectus of a male cadaver.In the histological study it was diagnosed as a Meningioma grade I.It was small size encapsulated tumor on inferior aspect of brain. On histological study, it showed meningo epithelial cells in whorl pattern, blood vessels, fibrous tissue Psammoma bodies, which indicate grade I meningioma.