TABLE 2.
Diffuse Pontine Glioma Characteristics
| Age (y)/ Sex |
Medulla | Midbrain | Histologic Subtype |
Grade | Extent Resection |
Postoperative Radiotherapy |
Postoperative Chemotherapy |
Survival (y) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12.8/M | Y | N | Astrocytoma | II | Biopsy only | Y | N | 1.4 |
| 3/F | N | Y | Astrocytoma | I | Biopsy only | N | N | 0.7 |
| 6/M | N | Y | Pilocytic Astrocytoma | I | Radical subtotal | N | N | 19.9 |
| 19.1/F | N | N | Astrocytoma | II | Biopsy only | Y | N | 0.4 |
| 17.4/M | N | N | Pilocytic astrocytoma | I | Biopsy only | N | N | 5.9 |
| 17.4/M | N | Y | Pilocytic astrocytoma | I | Subtotal | N | N | 5.5 |
| 9.1/F | N | Y | Astrocytoma | II | Biopsy only | Y | Y | 0.9 |
| 13.4/M | Y | N | Astrocytoma | II | Biopsy only | Y | N | 1.8 |
| 9.2/M | N | Y | Astrocytoma | II | Biopsy only | Y | N | 0.2 |
| 13.6/M | N | Y | Astrocytoma | II | Biopsy only | Y | N | 1.7 |
| 6.1/M | N | Y | Astrocytoma | I | Subtotal | Y | N | 0.9 |
| 14.4/F | N | Y | Pilocytic astrocytoma | I | Subtotal | Y | N | 11.4 |
| 19.1/F | Y | Y | Astrocytoma | I | Biopsy only | Y | N | 1.1 |