Planum sphenoidale meningioma classification

• Impact of Tumor Characteristics on Endoscopic Endonasal Approach to Tuberculum Sellae and Planum Sphenoidale Meningiomas: Single Center Experience
• Suprasellar Meningioma Classification: Endoscopic Transnasal Perspective
• Surgical Implications and Radiologic Classification for the Upward Bulging of the Planum Sphenoidale in Patients With Anterior Skull Base Meningiomas Involving the Tuberculum Sellae Area
• Surgical outcome of tuberculum sellae and planum sphenoidale meningiomas based on Sekhar-Mortazavi Tumor Classification
• Endonasal Operative Corridor Expansion by Sphenoidal Pneumosinus Dilatans in Tuberculum Sellae Meningiomas
• Planum Sphenoidale and Tuberculum Sellae Meningiomas: Operative Nuances of a Modern Surgical Technique with Outcome and Proposal of a New Classification System
• Meningiomas of the tuberculum and diaphragma sellae
• Level I to III craniofacial approaches based on Barrow classification for treatment of skull base meningiomas: surgical technique, microsurgical anatomy, and case illustrations

see Anterior skull base meningioma classification

A universally accepted classification system predicting surgical risk and outcome for planum sphenoidale meningioma is still lacking.

Mortazavi et al. proposed a new classification system that can allow the comparison of different series and approaches and indicate cases that are more suitable for an endoscopic transsphenoidal approach ¹⁾.

The Sekhar-Mortazavi classification showed a trend towards better visual outcomes in Class I tumors. The classification system is easy to apply and could therefore prove useful to compare results between studies reported in literature, especially when comparisons are made between transcranial and endonasal surgery ²⁾.