Meningeal Neoplasms

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Diffuse Leptomeningeal Glioneuronal Tumor Without Diffuse Leptomeningeal Involvement: Detailed Molecular and Clinical Characterization. 
  • A prospective, comparative trial of three anesthetics for elective supratentorial craniotomy. Propofol/fentanyl, isoflurane/nitrous oxide, and fentanyl/nitrous oxide. 
  • A quality assurance method that utilizes 3D dosimetry and facilitates clinical interpretation. 
  • A reappraisal of the results of stopping therapy in childhood leukemia. 
  • A true malignant schwannoma of the eighth cranial nerve: case report. 
  • Activity of intrathecal 4-hydroperoxycyclophosphamide in a nude rat model of human neoplastic meningitis. 
  • Activity of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) and polyamine levels as biochemical markers of malignancy in human brain tumors. 
  • Adjuvant radiotherapy for atypical meningiomas. 
  • Bevacizumab therapy for adults with recurrent/progressive meningioma: a retrospective series. 
  • Biphasic malignant meningioma: a comparative genomic hybridization study. 
  • CD34 and dural fibroblasts: the relationship to solitary fibrous tumor and meningioma. 
  • Cerebellopontine angle meningiomas: postoperative outcomes in a modern cohort. 
  • Cigarette smoking and risk of meningioma: the effect of gender. 
  • Circulating glycoconjugates in CSF of meningioma patients. 
  • Clinical outcome after hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (HSRT) for benign skull base tumors. 
  • Comparison of intensity-modulated tomotherapy with stereotactically guided conformal radiotherapy for brain tumors. 
  • Comprehensive DNA copy number profiling of meningioma using a chromosome 1 tiling path microarray identifies novel candidate tumor suppressor loci. 
  • Constrained customization of non-coplanar beam orientations in radiotherapy of brain tumours. 
  • Craniocerebral plasmacytoma: MR features. 
  • Craniotomy for tumor treatment in an intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging unit. 
  • Current options for the treatment of neoplastic meningitis. 
  • Cyclophosphamide therapy of medulloblastoma: from the laboratory to the clinic and back again (and again and again). 
  • Dental x-rays and risk of meningioma. 
  • Descriptive epidemiology of malignant and nonmalignant primary spinal cord, spinal meninges, and cauda equina tumors, United States, 2004-2007. 
  • Diffusion-weighted MR imaging in a patient with spinal meningioma. 
  • Efficacy of compartmental administration of immunotoxin LMB-1 (B3-LysPE38) in a rat model of carcinomatous meningitis. 
  • Embolization of sacral tumors. 
  • Endogenous and exogenous hormone exposure and the risk of meningioma in men. 
  • Endoscopic pedicled nasoseptal flap reconstruction for pediatric skull base defects. 
  • Endoscopic trans-sphenoidal surgery for petroclival and clival meningiomas. 
  • Epidemiology. 
  • Exogenous hormone use and meningioma risk: what do we tell our patients? 
  • Exogenous hormone use, reproductive factors, and risk of intracranial meningioma in females. 
  • Expression of TGFalpha in meningiomas. 
  • Extramedullary leukemia adversely affects hematologic complete remission rate and overall survival in patients with t(8;21)(q22;q22): results from Cancer and Leukemia Group B 8461. 
  • Family and personal medical history and risk of meningioma. 
  • Gadolinium enhancement of the leptomeninges caused by hydrocephalus: a potential mimic of leptomeningeal metastasis. 
  • Gadopentetate-dimeglumine-enhanced MR imaging of gliomatosis cerebri: appearance mimicking leptomeningeal tumor dissemination. 
  • Gd-DTPA-enhanced MR imaging of leptomeningeal spread of primary intracranial CNS tumor in children. 
  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies a meningioma risk locus at 11p15.5. 
  • Genomic analysis of non-NF2 meningiomas reveals mutations in TRAF7, KLF4, AKT1, and SMO. 
  • Gliosarcoma metastatic to the leptomeninges and dura. 
  • Hearing preservation with the transcrusal approach to the petroclival region. 
  • Hemidesmosome-like intercellular specializations in human meningiomas. 
  • High-dose gadolinium-enhanced MRI for diagnosis of meningeal metastases. 
  • IGF1R as a Key Target in High Risk, Metastatic Medulloblastoma. 
  • INTRACRANIAL TUMORS IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD. A CLINICAL STUDY OF TWENTY CASES. 
  • Immunoreactivity, pharmacokinetics and bone marrow dosimetry of intrathecal radioimmunoconjugates. 
  • Integrated MR imaging and spectroscopy with chemical shift imaging of P-31 at 1.5 T: initial clinical experience. 
  • Intracanalicular meningioma mimicking vestibular schwannoma. 
  • Intracranial leptomeningeal metastasis from thymic carcinoma: case report and review. 
  • Intraosseous meningioma--a mimicry of Paget's disease? 
  • Intrathecal 131I-labeled antitenascin monoclonal antibody 81C6 treatment of patients with leptomeningeal neoplasms or primary brain tumor resection cavities with subarachnoid communication: phase I trial results. 
  • Intrathecal administration of 131I radiolabelled monoclonal antibody as a treatment for neoplastic meningitis. 
  • Intrathecal busulfan treatment of human neoplastic meningitis in athymic nude rats. 
  • Invasion of the internal carotid artery by cavernous sinus meningiomas. 
  • Iodine-125 interstitial irradiation of virally induced dog brain tumours. 
  • Leptomeningeal dissemination of optic pathway gliomas in three children. 
  • Longer genotypically-estimated leukocyte telomere length is associated with increased meningioma risk. 
  • MRI of papillary meningiomas in children. 
  • Meningioangiomatosis: CT and MR findings. 
  • Meningioma of the fourth ventricle. 
  • Meningioma with eosinophilic granular inclusions. 
  • Meningiomas of the basal posterior fossa. Surgical experience in 80 cases. 
  • Mixed tumor of the choroid. 
  • Morbidity and Mortality Associated With Meningioma After Cranial Radiotherapy: A Report From the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Myelomatous meningeal infiltration detected by magnetic resonance imaging. 
  • Necrosis and apoptosis of tumor cells in embolized meningiomas: histopathology and P53, BCL-2, CD-68 immunohistochemistry. 
  • Necrotizing neurosarcoidosis of the cranial base resembling an en plaque sphenoid wing meningioma: case report. 
  • Pediatric radiation oncology. 
  • Peritumoral brain regions in gliomas and meningiomas: investigation with isotropic diffusion-weighted MR imaging and diffusion-tensor MR imaging. 
  • Persistent extra-axial post-surgical collections and Propionibacterium acnes infection. Presentation of two cases and literature review. 
  • Phase I studies of treatment of malignant gliomas and neoplastic meningitis with 131I-radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies anti-tenascin 81C6 and anti-chondroitin proteoglycan sulfate Me1-14 F (ab')2--a preliminary report. 
  • Phase I trial of intrathecal spartaject busulfan in children with neoplastic meningitis: a Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium Study (PBTC-004). 
  • Phase II study of Gleevec® plus hydroxyurea (HU) in adults with progressive or recurrent meningioma. 
  • Polyamine metabolism in brain tumours: diagnostic relevance of quantitative biochemistry. 
  • Preliminary study on controlled hypotension induced by nimodipine in craniocerebral surgery. 
  • Primary intracranial melanoma presenting as a suprasellar tumor. 
  • Primary myxoma of the parafalcine meninges. Case report. 
  • Quality of life after surgery for intracranial meningioma. 
  • Radioimmunotherapy of neoplastic meningitis in rats using an alpha-particle-emitting immunoconjugate. 
  • Reduced allergy and immunoglobulin E among adults with intracranial meningioma compared to controls. 
  • Regional measurements of blood flow in experimental RG-2 rat gliomas. 
  • Regional treatment of epidermal growth factor receptor vIII-expressing neoplastic meningitis with a single-chain immunotoxin, MR-1. 
  • Sagittal sinus thrombosis and leptomeningeal medulloblastoma. 
  • Second central nervous system prophylaxis in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who relapse after elective cessation of therapy. 
  • Secretory meningiomas of the orbit. 
  • Simpson Grade I-III Resection of Spinal Atypical (World Health Organization Grade II) Meningiomas is Associated With Symptom Resolution and Low Recurrence. 
  • Solitary fibrous tumor of the meninges occurring after irradiation of a mixed germ cell tumor of the pineal gland. 
  • Spinal meningiomas: surgical management and outcome. 
  • Subacute headache in a patient with metastatic gastric cancer. 
  • Successful treatment of childhood pilocytic astrocytomas metastatic to the leptomeninges with high-dose cyclophosphamide. 
  • Sudden death from diffuse leptomeningeal oligodendrogliomatosis. 
  • Surgical management of petroclival meningiomas: defining resection goals based on risk of neurological morbidity and tumor recurrence rates in 137 patients. 
  • Surgical management of posterior petrous meningiomas. 
  • Symptomatic cerebral vasospasm following tumor resection: report of two cases. 
  • Targeted therapy for glioblastoma multiforme neoplastic meningitis with intrathecal delivery of an oncolytic recombinant poliovirus. 
  • Tentorial detachment technique in the combined petrosal approach for petroclival meningiomas. 
  • The radiosurgery fractionation quandary: single fraction or hypofractionation? 
  • Transglutaminase activity in human brain tumors. 
  • Transitional cell carcinomatous meningitis after M-VAC (methotrexate, vinblastine, doxorubicin, and cisplatin) chemotherapy. 
  • Treatment of intracerebral neoplasia and neoplastic meningitis with regional delivery of oncolytic recombinant poliovirus. 
  • Treatment of neoplastic meningitis with intrathecal temozolomide. 
  • Treatment recommendations for primary extradural meningiomas. 
  • [Idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis of the cavernous sinus mimicking meningioma with complete occlusion of the carotid artery]. 
  • [Role of radiotherapy in the treatment of meningioma]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • McLendon, Roger Edwin, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • O'Daniel, Jennifer Colleen, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Radiation Oncology
  • Reiman Jr., Robert Ellis, Associate Professor of Radiology, Radiology
  • Sampson, John Howard, Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine, Immunology
  • Warner, David Samuel, Distinguished Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology, in the School of Medicine, Neurobiology