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Table 1 Outcomes of 30 patients undergoing surgical resection for lung metastasis of cranial meningioma

From: Solitary pulmonary metastasis after meningioma surgery of the head: a case report

Author, year

Agea, sex

WHO grading of meningiomab

Intervalc

No. of lung metastasis

Outcomed

Miller, 1985 [17]

61, M

I

N/A

1

22 months, alive

Le May, 1989 [18]

56, F

I

24 months

Multiplee

36 months, died

Kodama, 1991 [19]

61, F

I

228 months

4

44 months, alive

Kodama, 1992 [20]

30, M

I

144 months

1

3 months, alive

Adlakha, 1999 [15]

17, F

III

48 months

1

15 months, died

 

70, F

I

N/A

2

48 months, died

 

30, M

III

72 months

Multiplee

84 months, alive

Pramesh, 2003 [21]

29, F

I

96 months

2

24 months, alive

Knoop, 2004 [22]

53, M

I

N/A

1

24 months, alive

D’Aiuto, 2005 [23]

71, M

I

156 months

Multiplee

24 months, alive

Asioli, 2007 [24]

58, F

I

144 months

Multiplee

18 months, alive

Gladin, 2007 [25]

58, M

I

156 months

Multiplee

36 months, alive

 

47, M

I

132 months

3

4 months, alive

Fulkerson, 2008 [26]

54, M

I

N/A

1

12 months, alive

Ishibashi, 2008 [27]

68, M

N/A

312 months

3

6 months, alive

Psaras, 2009 [28]

49, F

I

180 months

Multiplee

12 months, alive

Estanislau, 2009 [29]

75, M

II

24 months

1

30 months, died

Sazawa, 2009 [5]

66, F

I

N/A

1

14 months, died

Etienne-Mastroianni, 2010 [30]

58, M

III

N/A

4

20 months, died

Cheng, 2011 [31]

46, M

I

N/A

2

5 months, alive

Kanzaki, 2011 [32]

67, M

II

180 months

2

18 months, alive

Nakayama, 2014 [33]

25, F

I

N/A

4

294 months, alive

Sakamoto, 2014 [34]

15, F

II

60 months

3

6 months, alive

Tao, 2014 [35]

51, F

III

12 months

1

1 month, died

Chiarelli, 2015 [36]

68, M

I

N/A

1

36 months, alive

Frydrychowicz, 2015 [37]

72, F

II

60 months

1

72 months, alive

Sathirareuangchai, 2019 [16]

59, F

I

N/A

2

5 months, alive

Kimura, 2020 [6]

54, M

II

96 months

2

37 months, died

Mardani, 2021 [38]

37, F

III

0 monthf

2

2 months, alive

Present case, 2021

75, M

II

24 months

1

8 months, alive

  1. aAge at the time of the first pulmonary metastasectomy. bThe highest grade was presented if the original description included multiple grades. cInterval between the detection of the primary tumor to the that of the first described pulmonary metastasis. dOutcome of the initial pulmonary metastasectomy. eThe term “multiple” was used only if the original case report described the number of pulmonary metastases as “multiple” instead of specifying the exact number. fThe timing of detection of the primary meningioma and its pulmonary metastasis was simultaneous