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Brain Science Foundation, Meningioma, Meningiomas, primary brain tumors, The Meningioma Project, Dr. Peter Black, Steven Haley

Footnotes

Treatments

1. Superior means above or on top of, in this case, the brain; sagittal refers to running in a front to back direction; sinus is the term used for very large veins; and, para- means near or close to, in this case, near the superior sagittal sinus.

2. Stafford, SL, Perry, A, Suman, VJ, et al. Primarily resected meningiomas: outcome and prognostic factors in 581 Mayo Clinic patients, 1978 through 1988. Mayo Clin Proc 1998; 73:936.

3. Stafford, SL, Perry, A, Suman, VJ, et al. Primarily resected meningiomas: outcome and prognostic factors in 581 Mayo Clinic patients, 1978 through 1988. Mayo Clin Proc 1998; 73:936.

Types

1.  Histology is the study of the structure of tissues and cells as seen at a microscopic level. The term histopathology (noun) or histopathological (adjective) is also often used as it refers to diseased or abnormal tissue and cell types as seen at the microscopic level.

 2. Kleihues, P., et al. The Who Classification of Tumors of the Nervous System. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol, 2002(61): 215-225