Spinal meningioma surgery in the elderly: who benefits?

CONCLUSIONS: Surgery for spinal meningioma in elderly (KPS ≥ 40 and ASA ≤ 3) leads to a significant improvement of McCormick, KPS and mCSS postoperatively. This leads to a higher rate of self-dependency and thereby probably to an improvement of quality of life in elderly. However, special attention for systemic complications is necessary. PMID: 30468359 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences - November 25, 2018 Category: Neurosurgery Tags: J Neurosurg Sci Source Type: research