The water-tight containers meant that the Titanic should have acted as her own lifeboat, floating until help arrived. Some of the answers, according to scientists, lie in the physics of her construction, the climatic conditions thousands of kilometres away and the iceberg itself.
Fabio Robert et al in his study about posterior fossa meningioma reported that headache (50%) and disturbance of gait (44%) were the most common presenting symptoms, and cranial neuropathies the most common neurological signs on admission.
The symptoms of a spinal meningioma are caused by the pressure that the growing tumor exerts on the spinal cord or spinal nerves. Depending on the location of the tumor, meningiomas may cause weakness or numbness in the arms or legs, and/or difficulty with bladder, bowel and/or sexual function.