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.
In 11 an enlarged cisterna magna was found (Fig. 1 AâK). There were five men and six women, aged from 19 months to 60 years, with a mean age of 43 years. In none of these patients were posterior fossa symptoms evident, the CT scans having been obtained for different reasons.