CHAPTER 22 The Cerebral Venous System in Meningioma Surgery Jacques. Brotchi, Michael. Bruneau, Danielle. Baleriaux INTRODUCTION Venous sacrifice has always been a key problem in neurosurgery. For many years, surgery…
CHAPTER 34 Cavernous Sinus Meningiomas M. Necmettin Pamir INTRODUCTION Surgery for cavernous sinus (CS) tumors continues to be one of the most significant challenges in neurosurgery, despite major technical advancements,…
CHAPTER 13 CT Evaluation of Meningiomas Canan Erzen INTRODUCTION Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) comprise the backbone of current meningioma imaging, and the diagnostic information provided by…
CHAPTER 51 Gamma Knife® Radiosurgery for Convexity and Parasagittal Meningiomas Toshinori Hasegawa, Jun Yoshida INTRODUCTION Meningiomas arise from arachnoidal cap cells, and more than 90% of them are benign.1,2 As…
CHAPTER 36 Overview of Petroclival Meningiomas Ossama Al-Mefty INTRODUCTION Clivus meningiomas in particular have until recently been uniformly lethal. The outlook for such patients must be improved by achieving an…
CHAPTER 46 Spinal Meningiomas Serdar Özgen, Deniz Konya INTRODUCTION Meningiomas located below the C2 vertebral level are termed spinal meningiomas. Meningiomas are the second most common tumor in this location,…
CHAPTER 24 Parasagittal and Falx Meningiomas Peter M. Black, Jacob. Zauberman INTRODUCTION Parasagittal meningiomas are interesting because of the technical challenges they present in resection and the changing concepts of…
CHAPTER 29 Anterior Clinoidal Meningiomas M. Necmettin Pamir, Muhittin Belirgen INTRODUCTION Anterior clinoidal meningiomas arise from the meningeal covering of the anterior clinoid process. In the classical neurosurgical literature anterior…
CHAPTER 28 Suprasellar Meningiomas Rudolf Fahlbusch, Venelin M. Gerganov INTRODUCTION The first successful removal of a tuberculum sellae meningioma was performed by Cushing in 1916. Later, in 1929, Cushing and…
CHAPTER 40 Presigmoid Keyhole Approach for Petroclival Meningiomas M. Necmettin Pamir, Muhittin Belirgen, Türker Kiliç INTRODUCTION Meningiomas are one of the most commonly seen lesions of the petroclival and clival…
