Table 2.
Review of clinical outcome of surgery for spinal meningioma
| Authors | Year | Number of cases | Follow- up (years) | Neurological findings after surgery |
Mortality | Recurrence (including residual tumor progression) | Complicaton requiring surgery | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Improved | No change | Deteriorated |
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| Permanent | Transient | |||||||||
| Gottfried et al. 3) | 2003 | 25 | 1.9 | 92% | 0% | 0% | 8.0% | 0% | 4.0% | 0% |
| Cohen-Gadol et al. 16) | 2003 | 80 | 7.1 | NA | NA | 1.3% | 6.3% | 2.5% | 13.8% | 8.8% |
| Gezen et al. 2) | 2000 | 36 | 9.0 | 83.3% | 13.9% | 2.8% | 0% | 5.6% | 0% | |
| Roux et al. 11) | 1996 | 54 | 2.3 | 81.5% | 13% | 1.9% | 3.7% | 0% | 3.7% | 1.9% |
| King et al. 4) | 1998 | 78 | 11.0 | 91% | 5.1% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 3.8% |
| Present study | 2014 | 14 | 10.4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 21.4% | 7.1% |
NA: not applicable.