Skull base meningiomas are among the most challenging meningiomas to treat clinically
due to their deep location, involvement or encasement of adjacent essential neurovascular …

In a previous chapter, the surgical management of skull base meningiomas were discussed.
However, the most common meningiomas that are diagnosed and operated on are non-skull …

Meningiomas represent the most common primary intracranial neoplasm treated by
neurosurgeons. Although multimodal treatment of meningiomas includes surgery, radiation …

Although surgery of the skull base still represents a frontier involving different specialties, it
is increasingly being accepted and recognized as a special area po sing both unique …

BACKGROUND: Skull base meningiomas represent the paradigm for the evolution of skull
base surgery within the past 50 years into a distinct neurosurgical subspecialty. METHODS …

In his landmark monograph on intracranial meningiomas, Harvey Cushing demonstrated
extreme variability in the natural history of these lesions." In general, their slow rate of growth …

Treatment objectives for meningiomas of the cranial base include relief of neurologic
disability and prevention of clinical progression or recurrence with the least morbidity …

Meningiomas as extra axial tumours, developing from arachnoid cap cells may occur from
all dural structures, cranial and spinal and rarely outside of these structures (Whittle et al …

Over the past century, craniotomy and resection of both the tumor resection and its dural
base has become the preferred approach for the majority of symptomatic patients with skull …

Key Clinical Message This study paper's main goal is to report rare cases of skull base
meningiomas that exemplify the complexities of diagnosis, therapy, and postoperative care …