[Intracranial hemorrhages in cerebral meningioma]

In patients with cerebral meningiomas, hemorrhages to the subarachnoidal space and tumorous tissues are an extreme rarity. The difficulties encountered in the clinical diagnosis may be, as a rule, accounted for by an uneventful course, marked by a dramatically occurring intracranial hemorrhage as the first disease manifestation. Carotid angiography and computer-aided tomography enable a correct diagnosis to be made. Radical excision of the tumor provides favourable results, with the exception of comatose patients.