Intracranial Meningioma Manifesting As Transient Ischemic Attack

Abstract

Meningiomas are the most common intracranial primary neoplasm in adults. They present a wide variety of clinical manifestation and interpreting the symptomatology of meningiomas according to their location is one of the most fascinating topics that explore the full potential of the clinical neurologic examination. Epileptic seizures are reported as the very first symptom in most patients. However, cerebrovascular events, particularly transient ischemic attacks (TIA), are uncommon presentation of meningiomas. We describe the case of a patient with an intracranial meningioma manifesting initially as TIA and make a brief review upon the possible explanations of the event.