title: Meningiomas of the cerebellopontine angle. A report of 41 cases.
abstract: A retrospective study of the surgical management of 41 cerebellopontine angle (CPA) meningiomas was performed. All patients were treated by a single surgeon (TTK) over a 25 year period (1967-1992). There were 13 males, 28 females with a median age of 53.5 years. The median follow-up after surgery was 9 years (range 2-20.4 years). Tumours were classified anatomically into six groups (lateral, midpetrosal, petroclival, internal auditory meatal, Meckel's cave and inferior). Only the petroclival tumours posed difficulties with complete resection (achieved in 7 out of 16) and for most of them a transtentorial transpetrous approach was used. In other groups, complete resection was achieved in all patients. There were four recurrences (two mid-petrosal, one petroclival, one internal auditory meatal), three of which had complete macroscopic resection at the initial operation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Atkinson Morley's Hospital, Wimbledon, London, UK.
authors.forename: N W
authors.initials: NW
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: T T
authors.initials: TT
authors.lastname: King
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D002530:Cerebellopontine Angle / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008579:Meningioma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed