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We report a pediatric case of GCM that presented as an intracerebral, periventricular, and infiltrative mass lesion. We performed a systematic review of published literature describing cases of GCM in...
Thirty-eight studies accounting for 61 patients were reviewed. most patients were 1-10 years old and 55.73% were male. Average lesion sizes ranged between 4 and 6 cm (40.98% >6 cm; 8.19% >10 cm). Supr...
GCMs show variable clinical and radiologic features, representing a diagnostic challenge for treating surgeons. Imaging may show various tumorlike features such as cystic or infiltrative patterns with...
The possibility that ventricular opening generates postoperative complications after surgical tumor treatment often restricts the degree of tumor resection. This study aims to determine whether the ve...
A retrospective review analysis was performed of patients treated at IOP/GRAACC between 2002 and 2020 under 19 years of age and underwent surgery for supratentorial intra-axial primary brain tumor res...
Glial tumor was more common than non-glial (65% vs. 35%, p = 0.09). The ventricular opening was not related to neoplastic spreads to the neuroaxis (6% vs. 0, p > 0.9) or leptomeningeal (3% vs. 0, p > ...
Our study demonstrated that ventricular violation was not associated with the occurrence of significant complications. It was related to the formation of subdural hygroma, which did not require additi...
Perfusion imaging is one of the methods used to grade glial neoplasms, and in this study we evaluated the role of ASL perfusion in grading brain glioma....
The aim is to evaluate the role of arterialized cerebral blood volume (aCBV) of multi-delay ASL perfusion for grading glial neoplasm....
This study is a prospective observational study of 56 patients with glial neoplasms of the brain who underwent surgery, and only cases with positive diagnosis of glioma are included to evaluate the no...
In the study, ASL-derived normalized aCBV (naCBV) and T2*DSC-derived normalized CBV (nCBV) are showing very high correlation (Pearson's correlation coefficient value of 0.94) in grading glial neoplasm...
This study is one of its kind to the best of our knowledge where multi-delay ASL perfusion-derived aCBV is used as a novel imaging biomarker for grading glial neoplasms, and it has shown high statisti...
Despite significant advances in research, the prognosis for both primary and secondary brain cancers remains poor. The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a complex and unique semi-permeable membrane that se...
We aim to evaluate the use of different whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT) fractionation schedules for brain metastases (BM) in Victoria, and the factors associated with it....
This is a population-based cohort of patients who received radiation therapy for BM between 2012 and 2017, as captured in the Victorian Radiotherapy Minimum Dataset. We excluded patients with primary ...
Of the 3111 patients who had WBRT, 1048 (45%), 1291 (42%) and 312 (13%) had ≤5, 6-10 and >10 fractions WBRT respectively. There was progressive increase in ≤5 fractions WBRT use over time, from 37% in...
We observed large variations in WBRT fractionation that are associated with patient, tumour, treatment and institutional factors. It is important to continuously monitor and benchmark our practice in ...
Pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors differ in their relative frequency, location, histology, biological behavior and prognosis from tumors in adults. Accurate neuropathological classificatio...
Patients with brain metastases (BrMs) are a heterogeneous population, with almost 50% experiencing cognitive impairment before brain radiotherapy. Defining pre-radiotherapy cognitive profiles will aid...
The study population consisted of 58 adult patients with BrMs referred for radiotherapy. A semi-structured interview and comprehensive battery including 10 neuropsychological tests were used to assess...
A majority (69%) of patients report decline in cognitive performance compared to their premorbid level (i.e. pre-cancer). Objective testing revealed memory (52%), processing speed (33%) and emotion re...
Patterns of cognitive performance in patients with BrMs are heterogeneous, with most experiencing at least some degree of neurocognitive dysfunction. We identified four meaningful cognitive clusters. ...