How to care for meningioma?

summary

Meningiomas usually occur in the arachnoid cap cells around the nerve roots near the dura mater. Patients should pay enough attention to the treatment of this disease, which can explain why meningiomas often occur in the lateral side of the spinal canal. Meningiomas may also originate from fibroblasts in the pia mater or dura mater, suggesting that they may originate from mesoderm. So we must do a good job of the disease related work, then how to care for meningioma?.

How to care for meningioma?

First, the initial symptoms of patients with spinal meningioma are nerve root pain, and then they will gradually develop to paresthesia and dyskinesia. The pain of upper cervical cancer is mainly in the neck, but it does not rule out the possibility of radiation to the shoulder and upper arm. The pain of cervicothoracic cancer is generally located in the back of neck or upper back.

Second: the sensory disorders of patients generally start from the farthest end, and gradually extend upward. In the early stage of illness, patients generally do not have any obvious sensory abnormalities. If they go to the hospital for examination, there will be no special discovery. However, with the gradual decline of feeling, all the feelings will lose together with motor function.

Third: Intraspinal meningioma can be removed by operation, but it may be accompanied by other diseases, such as epidural hematoma, spinal cord edema (caused by spinal cord injury during operation), cerebrospinal fluid leakage (caused by loose suture of dura mater and muscle layer), wound infection and dehiscence.

matters needing attention

When patients with spinal meningioma feel abnormal, they should go to the hospital in time to prevent further increase of the disease. At the same time, they should maintain a good attitude and actively cooperate with the doctor for treatment.