Meningioma of Foramen Magnum Causing Drop Attacks

Table 1

Tumors causing drop attack.

Author/year	Number	Age/sex	Site and nature of the tumor	Mechanism
Criscuolo and Symon (1986) [4]	1	—	3rd ventricular meningioma	Hydrocephalus
Lee et al. (1994) [5]	1	—	Posterior fossa arachnoid cyst	—
George and Laurian (1989) [6]	1	31/M	C2 neurinoma	Vertebral insufficiency
Pollack et al. (1995) [7]	1	2/Mch	Choroid plexus papilloma third ventricle	Hydrocephalus
Present case	1	46/F	Foramen magnum meningioma	Vertebral insufficiency and medullary compression

M: male, F: female, and Mch: male child.