OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE: Intracranial pheochromocytomas are extremely rare tumors. Reported cases include metastatic tumors without known cases of primary pheochromocytomas. CLINICAL PRESENTATION: A female patient with a history of a surgically treated adrenal pheochromocytoma presented 23 years later with headache, nausea and blood hypertension. A head CT scan demonstrated a right temporoparietal meningeal heterogeneous lesion with a surrounding hyperdense ring. No other lesions were disclosed. INTERVENTION: The lesion developed in the inner and outer surface of the dura without brain infiltration and it was totally resected. The patient is free of disease 6 years after brain surgery. CONCLUSION: To our knowledge this is the first reported case of a primary meningeal pheochromocytoma.
OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE: Intracranial pheochromocytomas are extremely rare tumors. Reported cases include metastatic tumors without known cases of primary pheochromocytomas. CLINICAL PRESENTATION: A female patient with a history of a surgically treated adrenal pheochromocytoma presented 23 years later with headache, nausea and blood hypertension. A head CT scan demonstrated a right temporoparietal meningeal heterogeneous lesion with a surrounding hyperdense ring. No other lesions were disclosed. INTERVENTION: The lesion developed in the inner and outer surface of the dura without brain infiltration and it was totally resected. The patient is free of disease 6 years after brain surgery. CONCLUSION: To our knowledge this is the first reported case of a primary meningeal pheochromocytoma.