What are the typical symptoms of meningioma We all know the seriousness of meningioma. When meningioma appears in daily life, many patients do not know what the clinical symptoms are, and only by taking treatment, the disease of meningioma will gradually recover. Take a look at the following introduction. General symptoms of meningioma 1. Extrinsic symptoms Because of the swelling growth of the tumor, patients often have headache and epilepsy as the first symptoms. Depending on the location of the tumor, visual acuity, visual field, smell or hearing disorder and limb movement disorder may also appear. In elderly patients, epileptic seizures are especially common as the first symptom. Meningioma on the skull Meningioma near the skull can often cause changes in bone quality. It can be manifested as thinning of the bone plate under pressure, or destruction of the bone plate, or even erosion through the bone plate to the subcapsular tendon membrane, and local elevation of the scalp, or thickening of the endosteal plate. The thickened skull may contain tumor tissue. 3. Symptoms of increased intracranial pressure are not obvious, especially in elderly patients. With the increasing popularity of CT examination, many patients only have mild headache, or even incidentally discovered as meningioma by CT scan. Because of the slow growth of the tumor, the tumor often grows very large while the clinical symptoms are not yet severe. Sometimes the patient’s fundus optic papillary edema is already severe and even secondary optic nerve atrophy is present, while the headache is not severe and there is no vomiting. It is worth noting that when the tumor in the mute area grows very large and the brain tissue can no longer compensate for it, the patient will show signs of increased intracranial pressure, and the condition will suddenly deteriorate, and even brain herniation will occur within a short period of time. Symptoms of meningioma in various parts 1.Pteroidal crest meningioma Tumor originating from anterior bed projection may cause vision loss or even blindness; invasion to orbit or supraorbital area may cause eye protrusion, eye movement disorder, pupil dilatation; epilepsy, mental symptoms, smell disorder, etc. 2.Meningioma of the convex surface of the brain The history of the disease is usually long, mainly manifested by different degrees of headache, mental disorders, limb movement disorders and changes in vision and visual field, about 60% of patients can appear after six months with symptoms of increased cranial pressure, some patients can appear local epilepsy, facial and hand convulsions, grand mal seizures are uncommon. 3, saddle node meningioma Visual field disorder, more than 80% of patients with visual impairment as the first symptom; headache, a few patients may appear drowsiness, memory loss, anxiety and other mental symptoms; some patients may appear endocrine dysfunction, such as loss of libido, impotence, amenorrhea, etc.; some patients with loss of smell, epilepsy, motor nerve palsy as the first symptom to see the doctor. 4.Sagittal paraneoplastic meningioma The tumor grows slowly, and usually the tumor is already large when the patient develops symptoms. Epilepsy is the first symptom of this disease, which is partial or grand mal seizure, mental disorder manifests as dementia, emotional indifference or euphoria, and the patient develops personality change. 5.Meningeal tumor Movement disorder starts from foot, gradually goes to lower limb, then upper limb muscle strength disorder, and finally spreads to head and face. If the tumor grows to both sides, bilateral limb muscle strength weakness and urination disorder, epilepsy, intracranial pressure increase symptoms, etc.