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- The study investigates the relationship between the location and size of meningiomas (a type of brain tumor) and their clinical and biological characteristics, noting that the anatomic origin can be difficult to determine in larger tumors.
- Researchers analyzed MRI scans and the World Health Organization (WHO) and molecularly Integrated Grades (IG) of meningiomas from adult patients to create a mapping atlas that correlates tumor location with grade.
- Results indicate that benign tumors tend to cluster around the midline anterior skull base, while malignant ones are more common in areas like the falcine/parasagittal region, suggesting that molecular classification may provide more specific insights than traditional grading.
Article Abstract
Background And Objectives: The size and anatomic location of meningiomas have been shown to correlate with distinct clinical manifestations, histopathological subtypes, and surgical risk. However, meningioma anatomic origin sites can be obscured in large tumors and those crossing compartments. We therefore sought to apply unbiased lesion mapping to localize intracranial meningioma distributions and their association with biology and grade.
Methods: MRI scans, World Health Organization (WHO) grade, and a molecularly Integrated Grade (IG) derived from cytogenetics were analyzed from adult patients with intracranial meningiomas. Semi-automated tumor segmentation was performed on T1-weighted contrast-enhanced MRI. We used the voxel-based lesion mapping technique to generate a meningioma atlas, mapping spatial frequency and correlating with tumor grades.
Results: Of 881 patients with meningioma (median age: 57 years, 68.8% female), 589 were WHO grade 1 (66.8%), 265 WHO grade 2 (30.1%), and 27 WHO grade 3 (3.1%) with a median tumor volume of 14.6 cm3. After molecular reclassification, 585 were IG-1 (66.4%), 160 IG-2 (18.2%), and 136 IG-3 (15.4%). Benign tumors were concentrated in and around the midline anterior skull base while malignant meningiomas were enriched in the falcine/parasagittal region and the sphenoid wing, similar to the distribution when stratified by chromosome 1p loss. Meningiomas exhibited sharper spatial clustering when stratified by the molecular IG than by WHO grade. WHO grade 2 meningiomas divided equally across IG 1-3, with corresponding partition of spatial distribution in the midline anterior skull base (in WHO grade 2, IG-1) and falcine/parasagittal and sphenoid regions (WHO grade 2, IG-3). Meningioma volumes significantly varied across age, sex, and WHO/IG grades.
Conclusion: We demonstrate the utility of voxel-based lesion mapping for intracranial tumors, characterizing distinct meningioma distribution patterns across histopathological and molecularly defined grades. Molecular grading associated with sharper tumor spatial clusters, supporting a phenotype-genotype association in meningiomas.
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