“…Due to the deep location of these lesions and their proximity to eloquent neurovascular structures, resection of PCM was associated with a high level of morbidity and mortality in the past [4,6,7,9,17,26,41]. Advances in microsurgery and introduction of refined skull base techniques have considerably improved clinical outcome to where mortality is rare and severe morbidity unlikely [15,22,23,27,29,32]. Nowadays, with the advent of radiosurgery, a shift of treatment paradigm has been recommended by many authors, advocating subtotal removal of PCM and subsequent irradiation of tumor remnants in order to minimize surgical morbidity and improve quality of life [13,14,21,30].…”