Table 3.
Lesion Characteristics
| Characteristic | RS/Observation (n = 90)* |
S/Observation (n = 81)† |
RS/WBRT (n = 95)* |
S/WBRT (n = 81) |
Total (N = 347) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of Patients | % | No. of Patients | % | No. of Patients | % | No. of Patients | % | No. of Patients | % | |
| Size of largest lesion, mm | ||||||||||
| Median | 20 | 30 | 18 | 30 | ||||||
| Range | 4-40 | 10-60 | 5-34 | 11-70 | ||||||
| No. of lesions | ||||||||||
| 1 | 61 | 68 | 76 | 94 | 63 | 66 | 79 | 98 | 279 | 81 |
| 2 | 20 | 22 | 5 | 6 | 23 | 24 | 2 | 2 | 50 | 14 |
| 3 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 5 |
| Location of largest lesion | ||||||||||
| Supratentorial lobes | 73 | 81 | 59 | 73 | 84 | 88 | 59 | 73 | 275 | 79 |
| Posterior fossa | 9 | 10 | 17 | 21 | 7 | 7 | 20 | 25 | 53 | 15 |
| Other/unknown | 8 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 6 |
Abbreviations: RS, radiosurgery; S, surgery; WBRT, whole-brain radiotherapy.
*
Only patients who received RS were shown.
†
Two patients who received S instead of RS were shown.