Meningioma symptoms

The symptoms of meningiomas vary depending on their location:

Headache
Balance problems, falls and clumsiness

Epilepsy
Loss of consciousness (even brief)
Weakness in a part of the body, sensory disturbances
Fatigue, apathy (often mistaken for depression)
Facial spasms
Language disorders
Paresthesias (tingling, numbness)
Vision disorders
olfactory disorders
Smell
Front bump
Intracranial hypertension
Respiratory breaks

To determine whether a meningioma is present or not, only one test is needed:

brain MRI with contrast injection.

Any doctor can prescribe it for you.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION for residents of the Île-de-France region:

To facilitate access to radiological screening and, if necessary, to a neurosurgical consultation, GHU Paris Sainte-Anne site, the Paris Descartes university center, offers the following to patients whose referring physician has deemed it relevant:

a quick MRI appointment booking, on a dedicated circuit;
an emergency Neurosurgery consultation when a patient presents with neurological symptoms;
a Neurosurgery consultation, when the neuroradiologist diagnoses a meningioma by MRI;
a Neurosurgery consultation, for any patient who has had an MRI examination elsewhere revealing a meningioma;

Only one contact: depistage@ghu-paris.fr

You must have a prescription (any doctor can write one) specifying : brain MRI with contrast injection.
The address of the GHU is 1 rue Cabanis, 75014 Paris.

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