Standardizing Tumor Consistency of Intracranial Meningiomas

Conclusions

The grading system developed and tested in the current study represents a simple, practical, and objective method for assessing the consistency of intracranial meningiomas and was noted to have an extremely high degree of interuser reliability, especially for overall consistency score, which was the main variable assessed. The application of such a grading score may standardize the communication of meningioma texture among practitioners and improve the objectivity and comparison of future research studies in terms of the predictability of intraoperative consistency using advanced neuroimaging techniques as well as effectiveness of various instruments for tumor debulking.