Skip to main content
. 2019 Oct 7;30(2):235–245. doi: 10.1111/bpa.12782

Table 1.

Clinicopathological characteristics according to WHO 2016 molecular subgrouping of gliomatosis cerebri. Bold indicates statistically significant (P < 0.05). Abbreviations: IDHwt = IDH‐wildtype; IDHmt = IDH‐mutant; OS = overall survival.

  Total IDHwt subgroups IDHmt subgroups P
II III IV II III IV
N = 89 (%) n = 15 (16.9%) n = 47 (52.8%) n = 3 (3.3%) n = 7 (7.9%) n = 15 (16.9%) n = 2 (2.2%)
Sex               0.927
Male 52 (57.4) 9 (60.0) 27 (57.4) 1 (33.3) 5 (71.4) 9 (60.0) 1 (50.0)  
Female 37 (41.6) 6 (40.0) 20 (42.6) 2 (66.7) 2 (28.6) 6 (40.0) 1 (50.0)  
Age (year)               0.794
<18 5 (5.6) 1 (6.7) 4 (8.5) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)  
≥18 84 (94.4) 14 (93.3) 43 (91.5) 3 (100) 7 (100) 15 (100) 2 (100)  
OS time (month) 23 25 18 15 24 58 43 0.078
1 year‐OS rate 78.7% 73.3% 72.3% 100% 85.7% 93.3% 100% 0.433
2 year‐OS rate 43.8% 53.3% 31.9% 33.3% 42.9% 66.7% 100% 0.104
3 year‐OS rate 25.8% 20.0% 17.0% 33.3% 28.6% 46.7% 100% 0.044
1p/19q               0.060
Co‐deletion 3 (3.4) 0 (0.0) 2 (4.3) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 1 (50.0)  
No codeletion 86 (96.6) 15 (100) 45 (95.7) 3 (100) 7 (100) 15 (100) 1 (50.0)  
ATRX (n = 73)               <0.001
Intact 59 (80.8) 13 (92.9) 38 (95.0) 1 (100) 2 (40.0) 5 (41.7) 0 (0.0)  
Loss 14 (19.2) 1 (7.1) 2 (5.0) 0 (0.0) 3 (60.0) 7 (58.3) 1 (100)  
TERTp (n = 34)               0.626
Wildtype 27 (79.4) 5 (100) 11 (73.3) 1 (100) 2 (100) 7 (77.8) 1 (50.0)  
Mutated 7 (20.6) 0 (0.0) 4 (26.7) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 2 (22.2) 1 (50.0)  
P53 (n = 27)               0.103
Positive 12 (44.4) 1 (20.0) 4 (28.6) 1 (100) 2 (100) 3 (75.0) 1 (100)  
Negative 15 (55.6) 4 (80.0) 10 (71.4) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 1 (25.0) 0 (0.0)  
Galectin‐3 (n = 20)               0.230
Positive 6 (30.0) 1 (20.0) 5 (55.6) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)  
Negative 14 (70.0) 4 (80.0) 4 (44.4) 2 (100) 3 (100) 1 (100)  
Pleomorphic cells               0.038
Absent 68 (76.4) 15 (100) 30 (63.8) 2 (66.7) 7 (100) 12 (80.0) 2 n  
Present 21 (23.6) 0 (0.0) 17 (36.2) 1 (33.3) 0 (0.0) 3 (20.0) 0 (0.0)  

OS time indicates median survival time.