Small Cerebellopontine Angle Meningioma-Surgical Experience of 162 Patients and Literature Review

Jiyuan Bu; Pengjie Pan; Hui Yao; Weiyi Gong; Yuan Liu; Zhengquan Yu; Zhong Wang; Jiang Wu; Gang Chen

doi:10.3389/fonc.2020.558548

Small Cerebellopontine Angle Meningioma-Surgical Experience of 162 Patients and Literature Review

Front Oncol. 2020 Oct 9:10:558548. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2020.558548. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Jiyuan Bu¹, Pengjie Pan¹, Hui Yao¹, Weiyi Gong², Yuan Liu¹, Zhengquan Yu¹, Zhong Wang¹, Jiang Wu¹, Gang Chen¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurosurgery & Brain and Nerve Research Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
² Department of Neurosurgery, First People's Hospital of Kunshan, Suzhou, China.

Abstract

Objective: To retrospective analyze the clinical data of 162 patients with small cerebellopontine angle meningiomas. To compare with the nature of tumors, symptoms pre- and post-treatments, neurological deficit, and prognosis in literatures. To explore the surgical outcomes of small cerebellopontine angle meningiomas and summarize the surgical experience.

Methods: All of 162 patients with small cerebellopontine angle meningiomas underwent surgery between January 2010 and December 2019 in the neurosurgery department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University. This cohort of eight literatures reported about stereotactic radiotherapy of small cerebellopontine angle meningiomas between January 2010 and December 2019. All clinical data were obtained for analysis.

Results: Compared with stereotactic radiotherapy, surgical treatment for small cerebellopontine angle meningiomas lead to the better results in relieving symptoms and inhibiting tumor progression. Surgical treatment can obtain the exact pathological examination results to guide the further treatment.

Conclusions: Surgical treatment should be the first choice for small cerebellopontine angle meningiomas.

Keywords: further treatments; small cerebellopontine angle meningioma; stereotactic radiotherapy; surgical treatment; symptom deterioration; tumor enlargement.