Surgical and non-surgical treatment of symptomatic intracranial meningiomas

The results of treatment of intracranial symptomatic meningiomas from a personal consecutive series are presented. Thirty-three patients were retrospectively reviewed following surgical treatment and 11 patients were treated prospectively with gestrinone, a synthetic antiprogesterone drug. Comparative results suggest that research and future advances in treatment will be non-surgical. The time has come for neurosurgeons to recognize this reality.