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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 24.
Published in final edited form as: Childs Nerv Syst. 2013 Jan 8;29(4):589–596. doi: 10.1007/s00381-012-2013-4

Table 1.

Patient characteristics

All patients
Variables N
Age (years at diagnosis)
 <3 3
 3–18 6
Gender
 Male 6
 Female 3
Chang staging at diagnosis
 M0 4
 M+ 5
Histology
 Desmoplastic 1
 Classic 4
 Anaplastic/large cell 4
Craniospinal irradiation
 Yes 8
 No 1
High-dose chemotherapy/autologous stem cell rescue
 No 8
 Yes (triple) 1
Number of previous failed regimens
 1 6
 2 1
 3 2

M0 no evidence of metastasis, M+ evidence of metastatic disease