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Meningiomas

Meningiomas constitute 13–25% of primary intracranial neoplasms.1–3 In one population-based study, these tumors accounted for 40% of all primary intracranial neoplasms when tumors diagnosed incidentally at autopsy or by neuroimaging studies were included.4 Symptomatic tumors were encountered in 2.0/100,000 of the population and the asymptomatic ones in 5.7/100,000, with an overall incidence of 7.7/100,000. Asymptomatic meningiomas can be found in about 1–2.3% of all autopsies.5 However, the classical teaching of the past few decades, which may be erroneous, suggests the most common primary intracranial neoplasms are gliomas (50.3%), followed by meningiomas (20.9%), pituitary adenomas (15%) and nerve sheath tumors (8%).6,7 Such discrepancy in these incidence rates underscores the fact that the majority of menin-giomas actually remain asymptomatic and undetected during life.8 With recent advances in neuroimaging, many asymptomatic meningiomas are being detected today, making the true incidence higher than those previously reported.9 It has been shown that the incidence for meningiomas increased 3- to 3.9fold in the post—computed tomography (CT) decade.10,11

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Park, B.J., Kim, H.K., Sade, B., Lee, J.H. (2009). Epidemiology. In: Lee, J.H. (eds) Meningiomas. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-784-8_2

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