Table 2.
Literature review of single-center series of surgically treated unilateral thalamic gliomas since 1997
| Authors and year | Treatment period | N gliomasa/total | Histology | EOR | Surgical mortality | Permanent neurological worsening |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cuccia/Monges, 1997 | 1988–1994 | 24/26 | 9 LGG, 15 HGG | GTR 9/26, PR (40–90%) 10/26, B (< 30%) 7/26 | 2 | 4 (motor3/consc.1; trans./perm.?) |
| Reardon, 1998 | 1985–1996 | 24/36 | 9 PA, 2 GG, 13 °II | > 90% 7/36, 50–90% 7/36 | n.d. | n.d. |
| Steiger, 2000 | ? | 5/14 | 2 PA,3 ° III | GTR 2 (PA), > 80% 3 (°III) | 0 | 1 (visual) |
| Özek, 2002 | 1992– | 14/18 | 11 LGG, 3 HGG | GTR 16/18 | 0 | n.d. |
| Albright, 2004 | 1986–2001 | 19/19 | 5 PA, 2 °II, 7 °III, 5 °IV |
GTR 6 > 90% 16 |
1 | 2 (motor, consc.) |
| Fernandez, 2006 | 1984–2004 | 14/14 | 5 PA, 1 °II, 6 °III, 2 °IV |
GTR 2 B 3 |
0 | 1 (coma) |
| Baroncini 2007 | 1992–2003 | 11/16 | 4 PA, 2 °II, 4 °III, 1 °IV |
GTR 5 NTR (< 1.5cm3) 2 |
0 | 4 (visual) |
| Puget, 2007 | 1989–2003 | 48/69 | 14 °I (13 PA,1 GG), 13 °II, 21 HGG |
GTR 5/54b STR (> 90%) 22/54b B 19/54b |
2 | 16 (trans./perm.?) |
| Bilginer, 2014 | 1999–2012 | 29/45 | 15 °I (14 PA, 1GG), 3 °III, 11 °IV |
GTR 6/33c STR 21/33c PR (40-90%) 6/33c |
0 | 0 |
| Cinalli, 2018 | 2002–2016 | 23/27 | 12 PA, 4 GG, 1 °II, 1 °III, 5 °IV |
GTR 12/23 STR (> 90%) 5/23 |
1 (2) | 2 (motor+aphasia) |
B, biopsy; consc., consciousness; EOR, extent of resection; GG, ganglioglioma; GTR, gross total resection; HGG, high-grade glioma; LGG, low-grade glioma; n.d., no details; NTR, near-total resection; PA, pilocytic astrocytoma; perm., permanent; PR, partial resection; STR, subtotal resection; trans., transient
aExcluding patients either > 18 years of age, or with bithalamic tumors, or with non-glial histology, or without histological diagnosis
b54 unilateral thalamic tumors operated on (all histologies)
c33 unilateral thalamic tumors operated on (all histologies)