CLINICAL PRESENTATION OF SILENT MENINGIOMAS AFTER GENERAL-ANESTHESIA

Authors
RAZIS PA ROBINSON DL ALBERRY R
Citation
Pa. Razis et al., CLINICAL PRESENTATION OF SILENT MENINGIOMAS AFTER GENERAL-ANESTHESIA, British Journal of Anaesthesia, 74(3), 1995, pp. 335-337
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Anesthesiology
Journal title
British Journal of Anaesthesia → ACNP
ISSN journal
00070912
Volume
74
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
335 - 337
Database
ISI
SICI code
0007-0912(1995)74:3<335:CPOSMA>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
We present two patients who became unrousable within 48 h after genera l anaesthesia for non-neurosurgical operations; both were found to hav e frontal meningiomas. Analysis of these and previous reports suggest that several anaesthetic and perioperative factors probably combine to contribute to the accelerated presentation of these previously ''sile nt'' tumours, and we recommend that dexamethasone should be administer ed early in the course of unexplained neurological deterioration after operation.