“…Factors associated with better results of radiosurgery for nonbenign meningiomas include histopathological grade II [3,14] , absence of malignant progression [14] , and, possibly, expression of the wild-type of p53 protein [10] . A favorable infl uence of smaller target volume, initiation of treatment before radiological evidence of the tumor progression, and younger patient age on the outcome was also marked previously [9,11] , but was not confi rmed in the present study.…”