WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

*Dr. Maryam Mahmood Shakir and Dr. Ameer Dhahir

ABSTRACT

Introduction: 30% of initial intracranial tumors begin in the leptomeningeal layers of the brain and spinal cord. meningioma’s are the most prevalent extra axial tumor in neurosurgical practice, although they're rising. Meningioma is diagnosed by MRI. Larger tumor’s likely to be of a higher grade, thus we made this assumption. We did a retrospective analysis to see if tumor size affected grade. Method: A cross sectional study of 150 patients with meningioma tumor, all cases of meningioma available in the archive between 2019-2022 in all cases of meningioma available in the archive between 2019-2022, all patients take age, gender, site and size of tumor and grade of tumor. No excluded criteria. Results: Mean of age of patients (50 ± 13) years old. [43.3%] of patients at age group 46-60 years old, [76%] of patients are females, [68%] of patients have supratentorial tumor, [49%] of patients the tumor size 3-6 mm, and [87.3%] of patients in grade I, the site of tumor as the following; 27 patient’s frontal, 17 patient’s parietal, 15 patients spinal cord and 12 patients sphenoid ring. There is no significant association between grades of tumor and age groups, gender, site of tumor, size of tumor. Conclusion: meningioma’s are frequent between 46 and 60. Women get most meningioma’s. Most supratentorial meningioma’s are 3-6 millimeters in size. Most details are in the frontal and parietal areas. Grade I meningioma’s predominate.

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