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. 2021 Sep 12;11(9):909. doi: 10.3390/jpm11090909

Table 1.

Surgical data of 94 brain biopsy procedures.

Biopsy Technique
 Needle 85.1%
 Endoscopic 5.3%
 Open 9.6%
Histologic Diagnosis
 HGG 64.9%
 IDH wild-type 98.2%
 IDH mutated 1.8%
 Low-grade glioma NOS 4.3%
 PCNSL 18.1%
 Inflammatory tissue 4.3%
 Other 4.3%
 Non-diagnostic 4.3%
Complications 8.6%
 Brain edema 3.2%
 Seizures 2.2%
 Pulmonary embolism 3.2%
 Death 2.1%

HGG, high-grade glioma; NOS, not otherwise specified; PCNSL, primary central nervous system lymphoma.