Table 1.
Patient characteristics at ventriculoperitoneal shunting.
| Median age, years (range) | 64 (21–76) |
| KPS, median (range) | 60% (40–90) |
| Pathology (%) | |
| Glioblastoma | 41 (66) |
| Anaplastic glioma | 18 (29) |
| Low grade glioma | 3 (5) |
| Location (%) | |
| Temporal | 26 (42) |
| Frontal | 19 (31) |
| Parietal | 10 (16) |
| Occipital | 4 (6) |
| Other | 3 (5) |
| Number of surgeries before VPS (%) | |
| 1 | 31 (50) |
| 2 | 19 (31) |
| 3 | 7 (11) |
| 4 | 1 (2) |
| Biopsy | 4 (6) |
| Ventricle opened (%) | 23 (37) |
| At first surgery | 14 (61) |
| At second surgery | 8 (35) |
| At fourth surgery | 1 (4) |
| Clinical presentation (%) | |
| Gait disturbance | 41 (66) |
| Cognitive impairment | 40 (65) |
| Urinary incontinence | 16 (26) |
| Other | 18 (29) |
| Classical triad | 10 (16) |
| Disease status | |
| Stable disease | 35 (56) |
| Progression of disease | 27 (44) |
KPS, Karnofsky performance status; VPS, ventriculoperitoneal shunting.