1.5 cm calcified Parafalcine meningioma

Best of luck with everything. I don’t have information, though that sounds pretty small. Have you had any symptoms? I hope someone who’s had experience with this will chime in. You’ll probably feel much better after you get all the information from the doctor.

Small is a relative term. Mine was 2.1 cm but in an area that’s pressing on the optic nerve and the pituitary gland depending on where yours is perhaps it won’t need anything done. I had mine removed three weeks ago through an intranasal/sinus approach. I read quite a bit about mine and was told a lot of information by MDs. Apparently, a great majority of meningiomas are only found in people on autopsy and never impact them throughout their life. I will pray this is the case for you. I understand being scared of losing sleep over it. Anytime you’re told you have a brain tumor. It’s quite impactful and scary. Thankfully, it turned out to be a benign tumor

@jasonl1012 where did they do this surgery? My is in my carries sinuous and surrounds my carotid artery and near optic nerve and pushing against pituitary Gland. No one wants to touch it. We are waiting for another scan.

I’ll chime in to support Jason’s comment that often meningiomas are found on autopsy, having never caused symptoms. I have had several meningiomas over the course of 22 years. Some have calcified and cause no problems. Typically, as I understand it, once calcified, it causes no symptoms.
I currently am receiving treatment for a GBM. It was actually discovered during a routine mri that was scheduled as a follow up 6 months after treatment of a previous meningioma. Fortunately, I was able to get treatment right away and will have another follow up mri this month.

I’m sorry, what is a GBM?

That’s really encouraging. I will have to wait and see what the Dr thinks. Was the surgery difficult? Where did you have the surgery at?

It’s definitely nothing I’d wanna go through again. However, I am only a couple weeks out. I do have some double vision and that’s been the worst part. I went to Dr. Gardner at UPMC in Pittsburgh. He does a lot of this technique. He only does surgery on tumors in this location of the brain, I would try to find an expert in your particular type of tumor and location. Don’t see a general neurosurgeon.

It is a malignant tumor, a glioblastoma or GBM shortened name.

I went to Dr. Gardner at UPMC in Pittsburgh. He only does skulll-based tumors in this particular area. You need to find somebody that’s an expert and only does these tumors. Mayo in Rochester also does them. there’s a research paper that states if the surgeon does over 100 intranasal through the sinus type surgery per year, the complication rates drop a lot. find a surgeon that does that. If they’re reluctant to tell you how many they do, get another opinion.

The people who I know had their surgeries at Duke. Not sure where you are located.