Table 1.
General patient characteristics
| General characteristics | All patients | Group I (age: ≤ 64 yrs) | Group II (age: ≥ 65 yrs) | Subgroup IIa (age: 65–69 yrs) | Subgroup IIb (age: 70–79 yrs) | Subgroup IIc (age: ≥ 80 yrs) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | |
| No. of patients | 768 | 100 | 484 | 63 | 284 | 37 | 101 | 13.1 | 142 | 18.7 | 41 | 5.3 |
| Age (median) | 60 | – | 53 | – | 72 | – | 67 | – | 73 | – | 83 | – |
| Sex | ||||||||||||
| Female | 579 | 75.4 | 376 | 77.7 | 203 | 71.5 | 70 | 69.3 | 102 | 71.5 | 31 | 75.6 |
| Male | 189 | 24.6 | 108 | 22.3 | 81 | 28.5 | 31 | 30.7 | 40 | 28.5 | 10 | 24.4 |
| Tumor size | ||||||||||||
| 1–3 cm | 252 | 32.8 | 170 | 35.1 | 82 | 28.9 | 35 | 34.7 | 36 | 25 | 11 | 26.8 |
| 3–6 cm | 233 | 30.3 | 137 | 28.3 | 96 | 33.8 | 24 | 23.8 | 57 | 39.6 | 16 | 39 |
| 6–10 cm | 61 | 7.9 | 37 | 7.6 | 24 | 8.5 | 6 | 5.9 | 12 | 8.3 | 6 | 14.6 |
| 10–15 cm | 3 | 0.4 | 2 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.4 | – | – | 1 | 0.7 | – | – |
| > 20 cm | 1 | 0.1 | – | – | 1 | 0.4 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 2.4 |
| NK | 218 | 28.4 | 138 | 28.5 | 80 | 28.2 | 36 | 35.6 | 38 | 26.4 | 7 | 17.1 |
| Brain edema | ||||||||||||
| None | 380 | 49.5 | 259 | 53.5 | 121 | 42.6 | 53 | 52.5 | 62 | 43.1 | 7 | 17.1 |
| Moderate | 190 | 24.7 | 113 | 23.3 | 77 | 27.1 | 20 | 19.8 | 39 | 27.1 | 19 | 46.3 |
| Large | 148 | 19.3 | 75 | 15.5 | 73 | 25.7 | 20 | 19.8 | 39 | 27.1 | 14 | 34.1 |
| NK | 50 | 6.5 | 37 | 7.6 | 13 | 4.6 | 8 | 7.9 | 4 | 2.8 | 1 | 2.4 |
| Asymptomatic meningioma | 73 | 9.5 | 50 | 10.3 | 23 | 8.1 | 11 | 10.9 | 13 | 9 | – | – |
NK not known, yrs years