Abstract

Meningiomas are the most common form of primary intracranial tumors. If the anterior visual pathways are affected clinical visual compromise, visual field defects, oculomotor nerve disturbances or propotosis are predominant. Meningiomas of the anterior visual pathway remain therapeutically challenging due to the direct anatomical relationship to the circulus arteriosus cerebri, the cavernous sinus and cranial nerves. The therapy of choice is microsurgical resection. In many cases a curative approach can be achieved with modern surgical techniques and simultaneously maintaining patient quality of life. Problematic are cases in which resection would be associated with the risk of clinical impairment and in these cases radiotherapy is an important therapeutic option. In cases involving complex invasiveness an interdisciplinary treatment to control local clinical symptoms is favored.

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