Abstract
The surgical treatment of meningiomas located at the base of the anterior cranial fossa continues to pose a big challenge to neurosurgeons despite that over the past century, many advances have taken place in both the treatment and the biological understanding of these lesions. The introduction of the microsurgical technique and the development of skull base approaches has allowed surgeons to achieve a better treatment, a big improvement in the outcome, and a higher cure rate of these tumors and was well founded in principle and proven beneficial in practice [1].
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de Divitiis, O., Chiaramonte, C., Califano, G. (2016). Introduction. In: Cappabianca, P., Cavallo, L., de Divitiis, O., Esposito, F. (eds) Midline Skull Base Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21533-4_18
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