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Large right sphenoid wing meningioma: Surgery or Watch & Wait?
Brain Tumor | Last Active: Aug 12 7:29pm | Replies (7)Comment receiving replies
I agree with the last comment about finding the right brain surgeon immediately. My personal advice is someone that can map the precise location using and MRI GRAPHS of the exact location of the tumor. Whether or not the tumor is extractable or not that would be left to the surgeons discretion. They will need a biopsy or a portion of the tumor to determine what type of cancer it is! From that point on, you are placed in postoperative recovery unit and a month later after surgery, radiation and chemotherapy depending on what they discover from the Lab.
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Thank you for reply. So grateful for the support. What is a MRI GRAPHS? Is the that different than the MRI's I've had which was "Multiplanar, multisequence MRI of the brain with and without contrast". I was told they were "mapping it" for surgery. My husband said why can't you measure "volume" and my neurosurgeon said that his hospital "didn't get the funding for that technology", but other hospitals did have that. He didn't seem to think it was that big of a deal. It's all so confusing.
He says it is a "presumed" meningioma, he is not interested it a biopsy because if they are going to go in, they will just "re-sect" or "de-bulk" it, that will also serve as the biopsy.