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All cases that undergo elective treatment and selected cases that do not require active treatment should be discussed in the appropriate MDT: Calvarial meningiomas at the neuro-oncology MDT. Skull base meningiomas at the skull base MDT. Spinal meningiomas are discussed on a separate section of this document.
29 mar 2024 · If your healthcare provider finds that the meningioma is growing and needs to be treated, you have several treatment choices. Surgery. If the meningioma causes symptoms or shows signs that it's growing, your healthcare professional may suggest surgery. Surgeons work to remove the entire meningioma.
3 cze 2023 · SRS and advanced conformal RT techniques are important management options in the elderly, particularly for WHO2, residual and recurrent tumors, and in patients where risks of surgery are deemed to be too high.
The provisional diagnosis of meningioma is mainly made by MRI. Definitive diagnosis, including histological classification, grading, and molecular profiling, requires a surgical procedure to obtain tumour tissue. Therefore, in many elderly patients, observation is the best therapeutic option.
28 cze 2021 · Key Points. Observation is the first option in incidental, asymptomatic, suspected meningiomas. Surgical resection is the first option for growing or symptomatic tumors. Radiosurgery or fractionated radiotherapy may be complementary therapies or even alternative approaches to surgery in certain situations.
Treatment options for intracranial meningiomas in the elderly include surgery, radiosurgery, or observation. Although age may have some part in treatment considerations, comorbidities, overall state of health, and tumor characteristics play a more significant role in patient outcome.
Meningioma is one of the most common intracranial tumors. It has the features of benign and slow growing. We focused on the meningioma in the elderly, retrospectively analyzed 528 valid meningioma patients, including 115 (21.8%) patients older than 65 years old.
