Table 2.
Treatment characteristics of pediatric patients with thalamic, pontine, and supratentorial high-grade gliomas
| Characteristic | No. (%) of patients |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Thalamic high-grade glioma | Pontine glioma | Supratentorial high-grade glioma | |
| Extent of surgical resection | |||
| Gross total tumor resection | 0 | 0 | 68 (38.4) |
| Subtotal tumor resection | 19 (19.2) | 10 (4.2) | 36 (20.3) |
| Partial tumor resection | 31 (31.3) | 21 (9) | 44 (24.9) |
| Biopsy/no tumor surgery | 49 (49.5) | 203 (86.8) | 29 (16.6) |
| Radiotherapy | |||
| Yes | 95 (96) | 218 (93.2) | 157 (88.7) |
| No | 4 (4) | 16 (6.8) | 20 (11.3) |
| Chemotherapy | |||
| No | 1 (1) | 22 (9.4) | 10 (5.6) |
| HIT-GBM-A | 1 (1) | 14 (6) | 11 (6.2) |
| HIT-GBM-B | 7 (7.1) | 26 (11.1) | 13 (7.3) |
| HIT-GBM-C | 26 (26.3) | 54 (23.1) | 37 (20.9) |
| HIT-GBM-D | 53 (53.5) | 83 (35.5) | 71 (40.1) |
| Other chemotherapy | 11 (11.1) | 29 (12.4) | 35 (19.9) |