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. 2012 Apr 5;14(6):777–789. doi: 10.1093/neuonc/nos077

Table 1.

Cohort characteristics

General statistics
198 cases total 160 cases with follow-up data
 111 male, 87 female  Mean follow-up 7.3 ± 0.4 years
 Mean age 8.2 ± 0.3 years  Median follow-up 6.3 years
 Median age 7.6 years  Follow-up range 21.3 years
 Age range 30 days—18.8 years  9 dead of disease
Diagnoses
143 pilocytic astrocytomas 4 grade II diffuse astrocytomas
27 gangliogliomas 2 grade II oligodendrogliomas
7 low-grade gliomas nos 2 subependymal giant cell astrocytomas
6 pilomyxoid astrocytomas 1 dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor
6 pleomorphic xanthoastrocytomas
Treatment
158 surgery only 40 with adjuvant therapy
13 chemotherapy only
19 radiation only
8 radiochemotherapy

Abbreviations: nos, not otherwise specified.

A total of 204 low-grade pediatric gliomas made up the cohort, 160 of which had available follow-up information. *Six cases were from NF1 patients and are not included in the rest of these analyses (see Supplementary material, Table S1).