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Study results from Seoul National University, Medical Department broaden understanding of meningioma

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, June 6th, 2008

In this recent report, researchers in Seoul, South Korea conducted a study "To evaluate patient outcome and investigate the prognostic factors of high-grade meningiomas by adopting the 2000 World Health Organization ( WHO) classification system. Between 1986 and 2004, 74 patients were diagnosed with high-grade meningioma: 33 with atypical and 41 with anaplastic meningioma."

"The mean follow-up was 58.5 months. We reclassified all surgical specimens, according to the 2000 WHO classification system, using two expert neuropathologists. Forty of 74 meningiomas were reclassified as atypical meningioma and 24 as anaplastic meningioma. Overall and recurrence-free survivals...

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