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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol. 2014 Apr;40(3):327–336. doi: 10.1111/nan.12093

Table 1.

Clinical and radiological characteristics at diagnosis, pattern of tumor recurrence, and survival of patients with epithelioid glioblastoma

Patient
#
Age at
Diagnosis
(years)
Gender / Race Primary
Tumor
Location
Intra-Tumoral
Hematoma at
Diagnosis
Metastatic
Disease at
Diagnosis
Site of First
Tumor
Progression
Tumor Spread
Outside the
CNS
Survival
(days)
1 10.7 F / Caucasian Thalamus YES No Outside the CNS YES 144
2 11.3 M / AA Temporal lobe YES YES Leptomeningeal YES 118
3§ 10.2 F / AA Bi-thalamic No YES Outside the CNS YES 42
4 3.5 M / Mixed race Frontal Lobe YES YES Leptomeningeal No 194
5 3.5 F / Caucasian Hypothalamic No No Leptomeningeal No 230
6§ 5 M / Caucasian Thalamus No No Local No 290

CSF positive for malignant cells and tumor nodule in cauda equina (patient 2), CSF positive for malignant cells only (patient 3), and multiple foci of metastatic spread in the brain (patient 4);

Tumor spread outside the CNS was documented at autopsy;

§

Patients 3 and 6 were only seen as consultation

Abbreviations: M, male; F, female; AA, African-American; CNS, central nervous system; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid