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Multiple intracranial meningiomas: diagnosis, biological behavior and treatment
José Carlos Lynch1, Leandro Alcy Sales Ferreira, Leonardo Welling
1Serviço de Neurocirurgia, Hospital dos Servidores do Estado, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. cneuroamericas@uol.com.br
Unlabelled:
Multiple intracranial meningiomas (MIM) are a rare pathology when not associated with neurofibromatosis. The prevalence rate of those tumors varied from 2.3 to 8.9% of all intracranial meningiomas.
Objective:
To present, analyze and discuss the cases of seven patients diagnosed with multiple intracranial meningiomas, describing their clinical and histological characteristics, as well as their biological behavior.
Method:
The patients records, surgical descriptions, imaging studies and the histopathological exams were retrospectively reviewed. This is the largest series of MIM publisted in Brazil.
Results:
This sample consists of five women and two men. The age varied from 42 to 84 (average 53.8). Twenty-two meningiomas were identified and varied from 1.5 to 192 cm(3), with an 62.8 cm(3) average volume. The number of procedures varied from 1 to 5 per patient. No surgical death occurred in this series.
Conclusion:
Despite the multiplicity of tumors, number of recurrences, the new tumors, repeated operations and re-operations, radiotherapy and a number of postoperative complications, the patients experienced a long survival in conjunction with a fairly good quality of life.
