Association of primary cerebral lymphoma with meningioma: report of two cases.

Two cases of association of primary malignant cerebral non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with clinically silent meningiomas are reported. In one case, the malignant lymphoma of the left frontal lobe was diagnosed radiographically and the small parasagittal meningioma was detected at autopsy. In the other case, both CNS neoplasms, a parasagittal meningioma and a multifocal periventricular and brainstem lymphoma, were only detected at autopsy. In both cases, the small meningiomas were located at the cerebral convexity. The concurrence of the slowly growing meningiomas and the highly malignant cerebral lymphomas, seen in two among about 140 confirmed cases of primary CNS lymphomas, is probably coincidental. No other neoplasms were found outside of the CNS.