title: [Intracranial meningioma. Results and social prognosis after surgical treatment].
abstract: During the period 1976-1984, intracranial meningomata (ICM) were diagnosed in 69 women and 22 men aged 24-83 years. Epileptic manifestations of up to ten years duration and focal neurological signs were thrice as frequent as signs of increased intracranial pressure. Radical removal of the intracranial meningioma was performed in 67 cases, partial resection in 15, biopsy of the tumour in one patient and a shunt-operation was performed in one patient. In one of the patients, the tumour was malignant. Three patients were submitted to irradiation. The neurological condition underwent temporary deterioration and 1/6 and permanent deterioration in a further 1/6. Eleven of the patients had postoperative complications (haematomata and infections) and there were two deaths during the immediate postoperative period. After an average follow-up period of 7 1/2 years, 27 further patients had died. In 3/5 of the survivors, the social conditions and the working ability were unchanged as compared with the preoperative status and these conditions were poorer in the remaining survivors. Recurrence of the intracranial meningeomata had occurred in four patients.
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authors.lastname: Nielsen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D008579:Meningioma / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D011788:Quality of Life; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
vernacular_title: Intrakraniale meningeomer. Resultater og social prognose efter operative behandling.