Table 1.
Patient characteristics including age, sex, surgical date, and cancer location.
| Type | Age/Sex | 1st Surgery | 2nd Surgery | 3rd Surgery | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Path | Date | Location | Path | Date | Location | Path | Date | Location | ||
| I | 40/F | LGA | October 2010 | R temporal | GBM | May 2013 | R temporal | |||
| II | 52/M | GBM | July 2009 | R parietal | GBM | December 2010 | R parietal | |||
| III | 44/M | GBM | August 2010 | R frontal | GBM | July 2012 | R frontal | GBM | June 2013 | R frontal |
| IV | 35/M | GBM | May 2013 | L temporal | GBM | August 2014 | T spine | |||
| V | 50/M | GBM | December 2009 | R frontal | GBM | January 2016 | R frontal | LGA | June 2016 | R frontal |
I: A low-grade astrocytoma with local malignant GBM transformation; II: A malignant GBM with local recurrence; III: A malignant GBM with local recurrence and then adjacent brain metastasis; IV: A malignant GBM with spine metastasis; V: A malignant GBM with local recurrence and then low-grade astrocytoma progression. Path: Pathology; F: Female; M: Male; R: Right side; L: Left side; T: Thoracic; LGA: Low-grade astrocytoma; GBM: Glioblastoma multiforme.