Meningioma Presenting as Nasopharyngeal Tumour Report of Two Cases

MENINGIOMA presenting as a nasopharyngeal tumour is uncommon. Belal (1955) reviewed the literature and described a case of unsuspected olfactory region meningioma, diagnosed at post-mortem, which presented, during life, as a mass in the nasal cavity. Two further cases of meningioma presenting as nasopharyngeal tumours, both thought clinically to be carcinomatous, are here described. The first was diagnosed during life, the nasopharyngeal tumour resulting from the extension of an intraorbital meningioma. The second was diagnosed at post-mortem, the nasopharyngeal growth proving to be the extension of an olfactory region meningioma. This latter was similar in many respects to that described by Belal (1955).