Spinal meningiomas comprise 25% of all spinal cord tumors and occur most often in the thoracic spine.
Calcification of spinal meningiomas occurs in 1% to 5%, and 25 cases of ossification of spinal meningiomas have been reported.
This is the fourth reported case of hematopoiesis in an osteoblastic spinal meningioma.
Bone formation and hematopoiesis in meningiomas are not completely understood, but metaplasia of multipotent mesenchymal cells is a hypothesis.