Meningioma is a kind of intracranial benign tumor, with slow growth, long course of disease and other characteristics, suffering from meningioma, in addition to anxiety and panic, timely treatment is very important. So how should meningioma be treated?
Can early treatment
of meningioma be better than late treatment?
This is the
principle. 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.
For those skull base meningiomas, because there are 12 pairs of very important nerves in the skull base, which nerve is compressed by the tumor, the corresponding nerve function will be affected. For example, tumors compress the oculomotor nerve that controls eye movement, which affects eye movement and double vision. If the tumor compresses the auditory nerve in charge of hearing, hearing loss or even deafness will occur. Tumors compress the glossopharyngeal nerve and vagus nerve, resulting in dysphagia, slurred speech, hoarseness, cough and other symptoms.
