Cerebral relapsing meningioma: a surgical series with lack of reliability of standard parameters establishing prognosis.

BACKGROUND/AIM: Meningioma is the most frequent meningeal neoplasm, usually without relapse or metastasis. Patient follow-up is challenging, not standardized and is decided in multidisciplinary case discussion. Our aim was to determine the clinical and histological factors influencing the time to relapse.

PATIENTS AND

METHODS

We conducted a single-Center retrospective study on 38 patients with surgically-excised relapsing meningiomas and collected clinical and pathological data.

RESULTS

Our results show that none of the histological factors included in the WHO classification, nor those not included are related to a shorter time to relapse.

CONCLUSION

In our study, none of the histological, immunohistochemical and clinical parameters evaluated seem to be able to predict the time to relapse in meningioma.