EVOLUTION OF SURGICAL APPROACHES IN THE TREATMENT OF PETROCLIVAL MENINGIOMAS
- 1 November 2007
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Operative Neurosurgery
- Vol. 61 (5), 202-211
- https://doi.org/10.1227/01.neu.0000303218.61230.39
Abstract
We examined the surgical approaches used at a single institution to treat petroclival meningioma and evaluated changes in method utilization over time. Craniotomies performed to treat petroclival meningioma between September of 1994 and July of 2005 were examined retrospectively. We reviewed 46 patients (mean follow-up, 3.6 yr). Techniques included combined petrosal or transcochlear approaches (15% of patients), retrosigmoid craniotomies with or without some degree of petrosectomy (59% of patients), orbitozygomatic craniotomies (7% of patients), and combined orbitozygomatic-retrosigmoid approaches (19% of patients). In 18 patients, the tumor extended supratentorially. Overall, the rate of gross total resection was 43%. Seven patients demonstrated progression over a mean of 5.9 years. No patients died. At 36 months, the progression-free survival rate for patients treated without petrosal approaches was 96%. Of 14 patients treated with stereotactic radiosurgery, none developed progression. Over the study period, a diminishing proportion of patients with petroclival meningioma were treated using petrosal approaches. Utilization of the orbitozygomatic and retrosigmoid approaches alone or in combination provided a viable alternative to petrosal approaches for treatment of petroclival meningioma. Regardless of approach, progression-free survival rates were excellent over short-term follow-up period.Keywords
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