Object This study investigated the specific preoperative MRI features of patients with intracranial meningiomas that correlate with pathological grade and provide appropriate preoperative planning. Methods From 2006 to 2012, 120 patients (36 men and 84 women, age range 20–89 years) with newly diagnosed symptomatic intracranial meningiomas undergoing resection were retrospectively analyzed in terms of radiological features of preoperative MRI. There were 90 WHO Grade I and 30 WHO Grade II or III meningiomas. The relationships between MRI features and WHO histopathological grade were analyzed and scored quantitatively. Results According to the results of multivariate logistic regression analysis, age ≥ 75 years, indistinct tumorbrain interface, positive capsular enhancement, and heterogeneous tumor enhancement were identified factors in the prediction of advanced histopathological grade. The prediction model was quantified as a scoring scale: 2 × (age) + 5 × (tumor-brain interface) + 3 × (capsular enhancement) + 2 × (tumor enhancement). The calculated score correlated positively with the probability of high-grade meningioma. Conclusions This scoring approach may be useful for clinicians in determining therapeutic strategy and in surgical planning for patients with intracranial meningiomas.
AIm:The association between post-decompressive hydrocephalus and clinical neurological expression is still unclear. In order to investigate this relationship, the authors analyze series of ventricular morphology and level of consciousness at different clinical stages for patients accepting decompressive craniectomy (DC). results: All 13 patients had ventricular dilatation and two of them had extra-axial CSF collection. Restoration of ventricular dilatation was not observed in all patients after bone flap placement, but extra-axial CSF collection resorbed spontaneously. Four patients accepting permanent CSF diversion had no improvement over neurological expression. Otherwise, two of them complicated with subdural effusion after shunt placement.COnClusIOn: Decompressive craniectomy itself would lead to ventricular dilatation universally. There is no direct association between degree of ventriculomegaly and neurological expression. Permanent CSF diversion surgery as treatment for ventriculomegaly makes no clinical improvement with possible complications of overshunting.
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