Meningiomas in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of individual patient data

• Published in: The lancet oncology Vol. 12; no. 13; pp. 1229 - 1239
• Main Authors: Kotecha, Rishi S, Pascoe, Elaine M, Rushing, Elisabeth J, Rorke-Adams, Lucy B, Zwerdling, Ted, Gao, Xing, Li, Xin, Greene, Stephanie, Amirjamshidi, Abbas, Kim, Seung-Ki, Lima, Marco A, Hung, Po-Cheng, Lakhdar, Fayçal, Mehta, Nirav, Liu, Yuguang, Devi, B Indira, Sudhir, B Jayanand, Lund-Johansen, Morten, Gjerris, Flemming, Cole, Catherine H, Gottardo, Nicholas G
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2011; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adults; Age Factors; Child; Child, Preschool; Children & youth; Connective tissue diseases; Disease-Free Survival; Female; Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Medicine; Histology; Humans; Infant; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Male; Medical prognosis; Meningeal Neoplasms - mortality; Meningeal Neoplasms - pathology; Meningeal Neoplasms - surgery; Meningioma - mortality; Meningioma - pathology; Meningioma - surgery; Neurosurgical Procedures - adverse effects; Neurosurgical Procedures - mortality; Patients; Proportional Hazards Models; Radiation therapy; Radiotherapy, Adjuvant; Reoperation; Risk Assessment; Risk Factors; Survival analysis; Survival Rate; Teenagers; Time Factors; Treatment Outcome; Tumors

The epidemiological, prognostic, and therapeutic features of child and adolescent meningioma are poorly defined. Clinical knowledge has been drawn from small case series and extrapolation from adult studies. This study was done to pool and analyse the clinical evidence on child and adolescent mening...