Kissing spines: fact or fancy?

In the Neurosurgical Clinic in Groningen 64 patients underwent surgery between 1975 and 1985 for a clinical and radiological syndrome described by Baastrup in 1933 and called in the Anglo-saxon literature: "kissing spines". Because the results of the surgical treatment were disappointing we submitted these results to further analysis.

The recurrence of supratentorial meningiomas after surgery.

A series of 113 consecutive patients underwent surgical treatment for a supratentorial meningioma between January 1955 and January 1975. There were 73 women and 40 men. There were 10 postoperative deaths (8.