CHAPTER 44 Foramen Magnum Meningiomas M. Necmettin Pamir, Koray Özduman INTRODUCTION Among the meningiomas of the posterior fossa, foramen magnum (FM) meningiomas deserve special consideration because of their characteristics in…
CHAPTER 41 Tentorial and Falcotentorial Meningiomas Volker Seifert, Hiriam Basiouni INTRODUCTION Meningiomas of the posterior cranial fossa account for about 9% of all intracranial meningiomas.1 Approximately 30% of all posterior…
CHAPTER 52 Radiosurgery for Meningiomas (With Special Emphasis on Skull-Base Meningiomas) Ajay Niranjan, Hideyuki Kano, Douglas Kondziolka, L. Dade Lunsford INTRODUCTION Meningiomas account for approximately 20% of all intracranial tumors…
CHAPTER 42 The Surgical Management of Cerebellopontine Angle Meningiomas Patrick Schweder, Andrew H. Kaye INTRODUCTION Meningiomas comprise up to 15% of adult intracranial tumors. These tumors, usually benign and slow-growing,…
CHAPTER 1 Meningioma History of the Tumor and Its Management Chirag G. Patil, Edward R. Laws, Jr. Meningioma/s has attracted the attention of surgeons, anatomists, pathologists, and physicians for many…
CHAPTER 15 Advanced MRI and PET Imaging of Meningiomas Menachem M. Gold, Joaquim M. Farinhas, Keivan Shifteh, Jacqueline A. Bello INTRODUCTION Meningiomas are typically diagnosed by their characteristic appearance on…
CHAPTER 21 Indications and Technology of Neurophysiologic Monitoring in Meningioma Surgery Francesco. Doglietto, Ivan. Radovanovic, Fred. Gentili INTRODUCTION From the early days of neurosurgery, there has been a continuous effort…
CHAPTER 48 Meningiomas and Neurofibromatosis Type 2 Alp Özgün Börcek, John A. Rutka, James T. Rutka INTRODUCTION The neurofibromatoses consist of two different, dominantly inherited disorders, neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1)…
CHAPTER 33 Primary Optic Nerve Sheath Meningiomas Uta Schick, Werner Hassler INTRODUCTION Optic nerve sheath meningiomas (ONSMs) represent 1% to 2% of all meningiomas, 1.7% of all orbital tumors, and…
CHAPTER 11 Clinical Presentation of Meningiomas Onder Us, Dilaver Kaya INTRODUCTION Meningiomas are tumors that are derived from the meningothelial cells that invest the arachnoid membrane. Therefore, meningiomas that occur…
