How to treat meningioma

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The treatment of meningioma is a difficult problem. It is not sensitive to drugs and radiotherapy. Surgical resection is an alternative method. The timing and approach of surgery should be determined according to the visual acuity of the affected eye, the location and extent of the primary tumor, age and health status. In principle, we should strive for complete resection and resection of the meninges and bone invaded by the tumor in order to achieve radical cure. Meningiomas are extraparenchymal tumors, most of which are benign. If the tumors can be diagnosed early, they should be completely resected before the brain tissue, important cranial nerves and blood vessels are damaged. How to treat meningioma.

How to treat meningioma

First, meningiomas are treated surgically, but there are some advanced tumors, especially deep meningiomas, which are huge and tightly adhered to nerves, blood vessels, brain stem and hypothalamus, or surrounded by these nerves and blood vessels and difficult to separate, We should not be forced to engage in total resection, in order to avoid aggravating brain and cranial nerve injury and causing the risk of intraoperative hemorrhage, or even leading to death or severe disability. It should be limited to subtotal resection of the tumor, reduce the volume of the tumor, supplemented by decompression surgery, in order to reduce the compression of the tumor on the brain, relieve intracranial pressure, and protect visual acuity. Or by staging surgery. In order to prolong the life of patients with unresectable advanced tumors, only decompression surgery was performed after tumor biopsy. Radiotherapy can be used in malignant cases. The primary orbital meningioma progressed slowly or even remained stationary for a long time. When the tumor was confined to the optic nerve sheath and kept good vision, no treatment was needed. In order to preserve vision, some scholars advocate optic nerve sheath decompression. The primary meningioma of optic nerve sheath in orbit will destroy the vision completely and spread to the brain, which may cause death. It seems that observation and decompression are inappropriate. Early detection and early complete resection are the more appropriate treatment. For the patients who are not easy to remove completely, or have concerns about surgery, and have good vision, CyberKnife can be used.

Second: meningioma radiation therapy CyberKnife technology is a kind of special equipment for radiotherapy of systemic tumors. Under the guidance of intelligent image, the robot arm can accurately and non invasively eliminate the tumor with multiple high-energy rays, so that multiple rays can focus on the lesion area to cause high-dose radiation, and protect the surrounding normal tissue from damage After 1-5 times of treatment, the effect of destroying tumors in any part of the body can be achieved. The core of CyberKnife system is interactive robot technology. This integrated system can receive the position of patients and tumor before and during treatment, so as to automatically carry out less than millimeter accuracy, so as to irradiate the tumor with X-ray, so as to achieve the purpose of effective treatment of tumor.

Third: meningioma also has one kind of best treatment method is through the traditional Chinese medicine Chinese herbal medicine treatment. Because Chinese herbal medicine for meningioma is playing a very big inhibitory effect, and for the treatment of meningioma effect is very good. So the best treatment of meningioma is surgery and traditional Chinese medicine.

matters needing attention

Meningioma patients in the treatment must pay attention to the condition of the lesion. In the early detection of meningioma, we should pay attention to the adjuvant treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. There is to pay attention to the pathological changes of meningioma.