ArticleCancers2021
Long-Term Follow-Up and Predictors of Functional Outcome after Surgery for Spinal Meningiomas: A Population-Based Cohort Study.
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- Resection vs. coagulation of dural attachment in patients with spinal meningioma: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis.Acta neurochirurgica · 2024Pooled it
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- Resection of Intramedullary Hemangioblastoma: Timing of Surgery and Its Impact on Neurological Outcome and Quality of Life.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Clinical diagnosis model of spinal meningiomas based on the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results database.Frontiers in surgery · 2023Article
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- Functional Outcome in Spinal Meningioma Surgery and Use of Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring.Cancers · 2022Article
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- Functional Outcome After Spinal Meningioma Surgery. A Nationwide Population-Based Study.Neurospine · 2022Article
- Unsuccessful external validation of the MAC-score for predicting increased MIB-1 index in patients with spinal meningiomas.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- MAC-spinal meningioma score: A proposal for a quick-to-use scoring sheet of the MIB-1 index in sporadic spinal meningiomas.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- Case Report: Upper Thoracic Purely Extradural Spinal Meningioma With Nerve Root Attachment: A Case Report and Literature Review.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Article
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Abstract
Spinal meningiomas are the most common adult primary spinal tumor, constituting 24-45% of spinal intradural tumors and 2% of all meningiomas. The aim of this study was to assess postoperative complications, long-term outcomes, predictors of functional improvement and differences between elderly (≥70 years) and non-elderly (18-69 years) patients surgically treated for spinal meningiomas. Variables were retrospectively collected from patient charts and magnetic resonance images. Baseline comparisons, paired testing and regression analyses were used. In conclusion, 129 patients were included, with a median follow-up time of 8.2 years. Motor deficit was the most common presenting symptom (66%). The median time between diagnosis and surgery was 1.3 months. A postoperative complication occurred in 10 (7.8%) and tumor growth or recurrence in 6 (4.7%) patients. Surgery was associated with significant improvement of motor and sensory deficit, gait disturbance, bladder dysfunction and pain. Time to surgery, tumor area and the degree of spinal cord compression significantly predicted postoperative improvement in a modified McCormick scale (mMCs) in the univariable regression analysis, and spinal cord compression showed independent risk association in multivariable analysis. There was no difference in improvement, complications or tumor control between elderly and non-elderly patients. We concluded that surgery of spinal meningiomas was associated with significant long-term neurological improvement, which could be predicted by time to surgery, tumor size and spinal cord compression.
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