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

ABSTRACT

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.