Authors: Alessandro Della Puppa Oriela Rustemi Renato Scienza
Publish Date: 2015/05/07
Volume: 157, Issue: 7, Pages: 1275-1276
Abstract
We appreciated the Editorial “The suboccipital midline approach to foramen magnum meningiomas feasible but is it optimal” by Dr Dehdashti 1 about the paper we recently published on Acta 2 We would like to take this opportunity to reply to the author providing readers with required additional clinical data We are obviously unable to answer the question asked by Dr Dehdashti because a specifically designed study to address this issue is not currently available in the literature As encouraged by the author we revised the outcome of 23 consecutive patients undergoing resection of a FM meningioma via a midline suboccipital MSO approach over the last 5 years at our department Overall morbidity and mortality rates were 87 and 0 respectively At 3 months after surgery eighteen 782 patients improved four 173 were stable and one 43 worsened Four 173 patients presented a transient postoperative deficit of IX–X cranial nerves No patient
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