Prognostic factors in anterior skull base meningiomas.

Aim: Histopathological and immunohistochemical study of prognostic factors in anterior skull base meningiomas in order to determine the post-operative management.

Materials And Methods: The studied material consisted in resection specimens from 65 patients with anterior skull base meningiomas hospitalized in Clinic of Neurosurgery, National Institute of Neurology and Neurovascular Diseases, Bucharest, Romania, and diagnosed in the Department of Pathology of the same Institute, between 2007 and 2013. The biological material was processed by standard histological technique with Hematoxylin and Eosin staining which allowed the classification of tumors according to WHO 2007 system and the assessment of the morphological parameters of known prognostic value.