Table 1.
Patient characteristics (n=72)
| Age mean (SD; range) in years | 42.0 (13.0; 20-67) | ||
| Sex (n) |
Male Female |
36 36 |
50 % 50 % |
| Level of education (n)1 |
Low Middle High |
9 27 36 |
12.5 % 37.5 % 50 % |
| Affected hemisphere (n) |
Right Left |
32 40 |
44.4 % 55.6 % |
| Tumor type (n)2 |
Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 |
49 10 13 |
68 % 13.9 % 18.1 % |
| Tumor volume median (Q1;Q3)3 in cm3 |
Right Left |
32.0 (18.2; 45.0) 37.7 (24.4; 83.8) |
|
| Handedness (n) |
Right Left |
60 12 |
83.3 % 16.7 % |
1Education classified according to Dutch coding system of Verhage and categorized into Low: Verhage 1-4, Middle: Verhage 5 and High: Verhage 6 -7 (Verhage, 1964)
2Tumor type classified according to the WHO grading system of central nervous system tumors (Louis et al. 2016); 3Quartile 1, median of the lower half of the dataset; Quartile 3, median of the upper half of the dataset