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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