Prognosis of meningiomas in the early 1970s and today

The development of new diagnostic modalities, surgical techniques and treatment strategies has changed the concept of meningioma therapy in the last 30 years remarkably. The computer tomographic (CT) scanning introduced by Hounsfield in 1973 [3,11 –13] and the magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in 1978 as described in detail by Doyle et al. in 1981 [8] represent the ‘gold standard’ methods for the diagnosis and follow up of intracranial tumours. The use of the operating microscope has become a standard technique in most intracranial proced ures since the 1960s [23,48].

Source: Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery - August 2, 2016 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Stefan Linsler, Cosima Keller, Steffi Urbschat, Ralf Ketter, Joachim Oertel Source Type: research