Encephalomalacia and Gliosis

Posted by kdog1957 @kdog1957, 5 days ago

I had a craniotomy 5 months ago to remove a large frontal lobe meningioma. I recently had an MRI and the report included encephalomalacia and gliosis among the findings. I read a few internet articles and found these conditions to be a softening and scarring of brain tissue that can occur from TBI, infection, surgery or even drug abuse. I’m starting IMRT soon and am concerned about the effects of 60 Gray of radiation going into an already injured area. I spoke with the radiation oncologist who said that in her experience it was unusual to NOT encounter these conditions after surgery. This was a little bit comforting but I still postponed the start of treatment by a week to get comments from the neurosurgeon. Still waiting for neurosurgeon response. Does anyone else here have this condition and how has it affected you?

Thanks

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