Meningioma symptoms

The symptoms of meningiomas are, depending on the location:

  • Headache
  • Balance disorders, falls and clumsiness
  • Epilepsy
  • Losses of knowledge (even briefs)
  • Weakness of a part of the body, sensitivity disorders
  • Fatigue, apathy (often confused with depression)
  • Facial spasms
  • Language disorders
  • Paresthesias (tingling, numbness)
  • Vision disorders
  • Smell
  • Smell
  • Front bump
  • Intracranial hypertension
  • Respiratory breaks           

To find out if a meningioma is present or not, only one exam:

  • Brain MRI with injection.

Any doctor can prescribe it to you.

To know for the inhabitants of Ile de France:

In order to facilitate access to radiological screening and, if necessary, to a neurosurgical opinion, GHU Paris Site Sainte-Anne, the university center of Paris Descartes, offers patients whose referring doctor will have deemed relevant:

  • A quick MRI appointment, on a dedicated circuit;
  • an emergency neurosurgery consultation when a patient carries neurological symptoms;
  • a neurosurgery consultation, when the neuroradiologist diagnoses a meningioma by MRI;
  • A consultation of neurosurgery, for any patient who had passed an MRI exam elsewhere making discover a meningioma;

Only one contact: depistage@ghu-paris.fr

You must have a prescription (any doctor can do it) with mentioned : Brain MRI with injection.
The Ghu address is 1 rue Cabanis 75014 Paris

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