[Solitary intracranial plasmacytoma--a case report and review of the literature].

A 49 year old man had had headache and some cranial nerve paralyses for about three years. A tentative diagnosis of meningioma of the skull base or chordoma was made before his death. In the postmortem examination, a large tumor lying on the skull base was found. The sella turcica, a part of the basilar bone were destroyed. The neoplasm had invaded the adjacent cerebrum, cranial nerves and extra-cranial tissues. Histopathologically, the lesion showed a typical poorly-differentiated plasmacytoma. Both clinic and pathologic characteristics of this tumor are discussed and the literature on solitary intracranial plasmacytoma is reviewed.