Most meningiomas are benign, which means they don’t metastasize to other parts of the body, and they grow slowly. But don’t dismiss a meningioma just because it’s benign. The size of brain tumors is closely related to the prognosis. The tumor is small, has little influence on the surrounding structures, is easy to be completely resected, and has high survival rates. On the contrary, the chance of total resection is low and the prognosis is poor. Therefore, similar symptoms of brain tumors should be diagnosed and treated as soon as possible.
How to
treat meningioma?
Meningioma basically does not have a particularly good non-surgical treatment, in principle, when the tumor is relatively small, early treatment, the difficulty and risk of surgery will be less.
Accidental check meningioma, no matter have a symptom, should become an operation?
As people’s health awareness becomes stronger and stronger, nuclear magnetic resonance, CT and other examinations have become very popular. Some people only have physical examinations, or because of other diseases, when they do head nuclear magnetic resonance, they accidentally find meningiomas, but in fact the patients have no symptoms at all.
So, the accidental discovery of meningioma, whether to need immediate surgery, according to the size of the brain tumor, location, growth rate, and whether combined with brain edema, whether there are symptoms, such as dizziness, headache, to judge comprehensively. Accidental discovery of meningioma, the vast majority of patients sooner or later or surgery, the specific timing of surgery should be found experienced doctors to judge.
What symptom
does meningioma patient appear to explain to want an operation?
As long as the meningioma is causing symptoms, surgery is needed as soon as possible. Meningiomas cause many symptoms, depending on the location and size of the tumor. For example, some tumors are very large, which can lead to increased intracranial pressure and high intracranial pressure, such as headache, nausea and vomiting. But usually when a meningioma causes a high intracranial pressure problem, it indicates that the condition is very serious.
Meningioma can also cause epilepsy, also known as “epilepsy”, patients will suddenly twitch limbs, loss of consciousness, foaming at the mouth, urinary incontinence and other symptoms.
The treatment
of meningioma is mainly surgical resection. In principle, complete resection should be attempted, and the meninges and bone invaded by the tumor should be resected in order to cure the disease. Meningiomas are mostly benign. If they can be diagnosed early, total resection should be achieved before the tumor is used and the surrounding brain tissue and important cranial nerves and blood vessels are damaged. However, there are some advanced tumors, especially deep meningiomas, which are huge and tightly adhered to nerves, blood vessels, brain stem and hypothalamus, or are not easy to separate these nerves and blood vessels. In this case, total resection should not be carried out reluctantly, so as not to aggravate brain and cranial nerve injury and cause the risk of massive hemorrhage during the operation, or even lead to death or severe disability. The principle of meningioma surgery is to control bleeding, protect brain function, and strive for total resection. For patients who cannot be totally resected, subtotal resection of the tumor or fractionated surgery is feasible to avoid serious disability or death.
