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We have reviewed the cases of 57 patients with medial sphenoid meningioma who were operated on in our department during the period 1976 to 1988. The patients were grouped according to location, and their pertinent clinical features are presented. Given the frequency of invasion of the cavernous sinus by such tumours, the following question must be considered in each individual case: the potential benefit of the most radical surgery possible, to minimize the recurrence rate, must be weighed against the cost to the patient in diminished quality of life of iatrogenic neurological impairment. We currently advocate the following strategy: radical removal of tumour tissue lying within the cavernous sinus is unwarranted for the first operation if it would entail iatrogenic neurological damage. Only if subsequent follow-up reveals either fast growth of this tissue, or neurological signs and symptoms attributable to it, do we then attempt uncompromising radicality at a second operation.
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Kleinpeter, G., Böck, F. Invasion of the cavernous sinus by medial sphenoid meningioma —“Radical” surgery and recurrence. Acta neurochir 103, 87–91 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01407511
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