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Acta Neurologica Belgica https://doi.org/10.1007/s13760-023-02214-0 LE T TER TO THE EDITOR 1 2 3 4 Davide Facchinelli · Linda Mazzai · Cristiano Parisi · Mariangela Novello Received: 3 January 2023 / Accepted: 13 February 2023 © The Author(s) under exclusive licence to Belgian Neurological Society 2023 Introduction Cases description Extranodal marginal zone lymphoma of the dura, also known Case 1 as mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphomas of the dura (MLD), is a rare type of primary central nervous In February 2009, a 42-year-old woman was diagnosed with system lymphomas (PCNSL), and despite some published a parotid gland MALT lymphoma, stage IE, and treated with case reports and case series, the precise incidence of MLD locoregional radiotherapy achieving complete remission. is unknown [1, 2]. In April 2012, the patient was urgently admitted to a neu- Unlike most of the other PCNSLs that biologically are rosurgical ward for irritability, spatial–temporal disorienta- high-grade lesions, MLD is a low-grade, indolent disease, tion, and psychomotor agitation. Magnetic Resonance (MR) which originates in the dura but can involve the epidural, imaging of the brain revealed a contrast-enhanced, space- subdural, and subarachnoid space and classically lacks inva- occupying lesion in the left frontal region of the brain with sion of
Acta Neurologica Belgica – Springer Journals
Published: Jun 1, 2023
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