Spinal meningiomas - Risks and potential of an increasing age at the time of surgery.

•Patients’ age is not associated with tumor location or volume in spinal meningiomas.•Risk of preoperative motor and sensory deficits rises with age at diagnosis.•Surgical procedures do not correlate with patients’ age.•Non-neurological complications are common in elderly patients.•Increasing age is associated with postoperative symptom improvement.