Paediatric Rhabdoid Meningioma: Clinical and Therapeutic Features Findings – Case Series of 3 Patients

Abstract

Introduction: Paediatric rhabdoid meningioma (RM) is the rarest but most aggressive subtype of meningioma, related to a severe prognosis. They account for 1–3% of all intracranial meningiomas. Case Presentations: We report an institutional experience of 3 cases through which we discuss clinical, histological, and therapeutic features of this tumour. Two of our patients were female-gendered (3 years old and 1 year and 6 months old), and one was male-gendered (16 years old). Revealing symptoms were related to intracranial hypertension, cerebellar syndrome, cranial nerve palsy, and skull tumefaction. Imaging showed extra-axial tumour located in the right ponto-cerebellar angle in the first case, in the left occipital region in the second case, left parietal tumour in the third case. All patients underwent a surgical intervention with a gross total resection. Histological evaluation supported by immunohistochemistry confirmed the diagnosis of RM. Tumour recurrence was observed at 45 days in the first case with a fatal outcome. Despite adjuvant radiotherapy, both second and third cases had local recurrence after a mean follow-up of 1 month following the radiotherapy. Conclusions: RM is very aggressive tumours. Standardized therapeutic guidelines are still under debate as actual approaches are still inefficient to prevent quick recurrence and fatal outcome.