Table II.

Treatment of central nervous system lymphoma following primary pathological diagnosis.

Case no.	Treatment	Clinical course	Time before progression	Secondary pathological diagnosis (method)	Follow-up prognosis
1	None	Remission of primary lesion, but a later appearance of other multiple lesions	4 months	DLBCL (biopsy)	No information
2	Steroid	Remission, but later appearances of other multiple lesions	24 months	DLBCL (biopsy)	No information
3	Steroid	Remission, but later appearances of right frontal lesion	11 months	DLBCL (biopsy)	No information
4	None	Remission of primary lesions, but later the clinical condition progressively deteriorated	No information	Poorly differentiated malignant lymphoma (autopsy)	Succumbed 4 months after initial presentation
5	None	Remission of primary lesions, then a slow deterioration of the patient’s condition	No information	Malignant undifferentiated lymphoma (autopsy)	Succumbed 3 months after inital presentation
6	None	Remission of primary lesions, patient was treated with steroids and radiotherapy following biopsy	No progression	Malignant lymphoma (autopsy)	Alive 4 years after initial diagnosis
7	Steroid	Remission of primary lesions, but later the clinical condition progressively deteriorated	3 months	DLBCL (biopsy)	Succumbed 8 months after initial diagnosis

DLBCL, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.