ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021
Meningioma Surgery in Patients ≥70 Years of Age: Clinical Outcome and Validation of the SKALE Score.
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- Pulmonary embolism following the third thoracic tuberculosis surgery: A case report and literature review.Journal of clinical laboratory analysis · 2022Review
- A Clinical Prognostic Model Based on Preoperative Hematological and Clinical Parameters Predicts the Progression of Primary WHO Grade II Meningioma.Frontiers in oncology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Along with increasing average life expectancy, the number of elderly meningioma patients has grown proportionally. Our aim was to evaluate whether these specific patients benefit from surgery and to investigate a previously published score for decision-making in meningioma patients (SKALE). Of 421 patients who underwent primary intracranial meningioma resection between 2009 and 2015, 71 patients were ≥70 years of age. We compared clinical data including World Health Organization (WHO) grade, MIB-1 proliferation index, Karnofsky Performance Status Scale (KPS), progression free survival (PFS) and mortality rate between elderly and all other meningioma patients. Preoperative SKALE scores (Sex, KPS, ASA score, location and edema) were determined for elderly patients. SKALE ≥8 was set for dichotomization to determine any association with outcome parameters. In 71 elderly patients (male/female 37/34) all data were available. Postoperative KPS was significantly lower in elderly patients (
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