Petroclival meningiomas: Magnetic resonance imaging factors predict tumor resectability and clinical outcome.

Petroclival meningiomas: Magnetic resonance imaging factors predict tumor resectability and clinical outcome.

Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2016 Jun 2;147:90-97

Authors: Pirayesh A, Petrakakis I, Raab P, Polemikos M, Krauss JK, Nakamura M

Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Despite advances in skull base surgery, surgical removal of petroclival meningiomas (PCM) still poses a considerable neurosurgical challenge with regard to postoperative morbidity and the patients' long-term outcome. Knowledge of imaging features for PCM that might help to predict common risk factors encountered with tumor resection preoperatively is limited. The aim of this study was to clarify whether MRI features of PCM might predict tumor resectability and clinical outcome.
METHODS: A retrospective analysis of 18 cases of PCM treated surgically in our department between 2007 and 2013 was performed. Following radiological tumor features were compared to the extent of tumor resection and the patients' outcome: a) tumor diameter, b) calcification, c) tumor margin towards the brainstem, d) presence of an arachnoidal cleavage plane, e) brainstem edema, f) brainstem compression and g) tumor signal intensity on T2WI.
RESULTS: There was an excellent correlation between tumor resectability and preoperative findings with regard to the presence or absence of an arachnoidal cleavage plane and an irregular tumor margin towards the brainstem. Additionally, the presence of brainstem edema was significantly related to surgical morbidity, whereas a high tumor intensity on T2WI correlated significantly with soft tumor consistency and/or vascularity encountered during surgery.
CONCLUSION: As demonstrated in our series, PCM with an irregular tumor margin and absence of an arachnoidal plane towards the brainstem should be considered a high-risk group. In these cases, especially when additional brainstem edema is present, limited resection of tumor may be aspired to avoid postoperative morbidity.

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