By Laura Dyrda
A new study published in Spine examines the descriptive epidemiology of spinal meningiomas in the United States.
The researchers examined the Central Brain Tumor Registry in the United States, which has the largest aggregation of population-based data on primary nervous system tumors in the country. Here are five things to know based on the report:
1. There were 7,148 newly-diagnosed spinal meningiomas in the United States from 2004 to 2010.