Prognostic factors of microsurgical treatment of intracranial meningiomas - A multivariate analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Peri- and postoperative time course of meningioma patients who had undergone surgical treatment was evaluated to determine prognostic factors of neurological outcome by focusing on preoperative parameters.

Material and methods

A retrospective monocenter analysis was performed including patients who were operated in the Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Leipzig, from 2009 to 2015. Data from all patients with histologically confirmed diagnosis of intracranial meningioma treated microsurgically were included in the study. The individual characteristics of the patients, meningiomas and Karnofsky Performance scores (KPS) were analyzed by multivariate tests.

Results

Two hundred ninety-four patients with a median age of 61 years (range: 17-89) were in

SUBMITTER: Kreßner M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6191082 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature