Meningioma — defining characteristics of the affected Pakistani population Authors Mashal Murad Shah The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi,Pakistan Muhammad Usman Khalid The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi,Pakistan. Mohammad Hamza Bajwa The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi,Pakistan. Saqib Kamran Bakhshi The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan Saad bin Anis Shaukat Khanum Cancer Memorial Hospital, Lahore. Naveed Zaman Akhunzada Rehman Medical Institute, Hayatabad, Peshawar,Pakistan Altaf Ali Laghari Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan. Muhammad Faraz Raghib The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi,Pakistan Sameen Siddiqi The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi,Pakistan Syed Ather Enam The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi,Pakistan DOI: https://doi.org/10.47391/JPMA.11-S4-AKUB08 Abstract Objective: To ascertain the age and gender differences, treatment, and management of meningiomas across Pakistan. Methods: Data were collected as part of the PBTES, and patients with a histopathological diagnosis of an intracranial meningioma in 2019 that presented at these centres were included in this cohort study sub-analysis. Thirty-two centres participated in the study. Medical students, residents, and faculty collated data from medical records. Results: Our data indicate that meningiomas constitute 15.6% of all intracranial tumours in Pakistan and occur more often in females (236, 55%) than in males. The mean age at diagnosis was 43.7 ± 19.9 years. Meningiomas had a slightly higher preponderance in the right hemisphere of the brain at 203 (47.32%) tumours and 267 (62.2%) of the tumours in the frontal and parietal lobes. We found that 174 (61.3%) of all meningiomas diagnosed in Pakistan in 2019 were grade I tumours, which was also the most commonly occurring tumour grade. Adjuvant chemoradiotherapy for meningiomas was rarely observed in Pakistan. Conclusion: The PBTES reveals a low hospital-based incidence of meningiomas in 2019 when compared to the incidence in high-income countries but found evidence similar to those of other LMICs. Tumour characteristics, such as location, grading and surgical procedures, were similar to global literature. Keywords: Meningioma, Chemoradiotherapy, Brain Neoplasms, Epidemiology, Gender traits. Continue... Downloads Full Text Article Published 2022-12-15 How to Cite Mashal Murad Shah, Muhammad Usman Khalid , Mohammad Hamza Bajwa, Saqib Kamran Bakhshi, Saad bin Anis , Naveed Zaman Akhunzada , Altaf Ali Laghari , Muhammad Faraz Raghib, Sameen Siddiqi , & Syed Ather Enam. (2022). Meningioma — defining characteristics of the affected Pakistani population. Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 72(11), S51-S55. https://doi.org/10.47391/JPMA.11-S4-AKUB08 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue Vol. 72 No. 11 (2022): Pakistan Brain Tumour Epidemiology Study (PBTES) Section Research Article