CHAPTER 38 Petroclival Meningiomas Middle Fossa Anterior Transpetrosal Approach Takeshi Kawase INTRODUCTION Surgical removal of the pyramidal bone through the middle fossa has been used mainly for cerebellopontine angle tumors…
CHAPTER 45 Intraventricular Meningiomas Atul Goel, Ketan I. Desai, Amaresh S. Bhaganagare INTRODUCTION Intraventricular meningiomas are relatively rare and represent 1% to 2% of all meningiomas. The first recorded case…
CHAPTER 49 Multiple Meningiomas Nejat Akalan, Tunçalp Özgen INTRODUCTION Multiple meningiomas are defined as two or more meningiomas detected simultaneously at different intracranial locations in the same patient. While the…
CHAPTER 35 Middle Fossa Meningiomas Katsumi Sakata, Isao Yamamoto INTRODUCTION The middle fossa is a common localization for intracranial meningiomas. The floor of the middle cranial fossa is formed by…
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,…
