TABLE 1.
Demographic, clinical, and imaging data of the 3 patients with angiocentric gliomas in our hospital
| Demographic & clinical data | Patient | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Age at diagnosis (years) | 2 | 43 | 10 | ||
| Sex | Male | Male | Male | ||
| Seizure/epilepsy | No | Yes | Yes | ||
| Seizure/epilepsy started (years) | 8 | 10 | |||
| Surgery | No (biopsy‐proven) | Yes | Yes | ||
| Chemotherapy | Yes | No | No | ||
| Recurrence, period (from surgery) | No | No | |||
| Patient status | Survive | Survive | Survive | ||
| Follow up duration (month) | 39 | 72 | 38 | ||
| Imaging data | Size (mm: Anteroposterior × transverse × craniocaudal) | 38 × 40 × 41 | 8 × 9 × 10 | 24 × 28 × 21 | |
| Laterality | Middle | Left | Left | ||
| Tumor site | Pons, Medulla | Frontal lobe | Occipital lobe | ||
| Tumor margin | Well | Well | Well | ||
| Involvement of both cortex and subcortex | Yes | Yes | |||
| Massive surrounding edema (≥tumor size) | No | No | No | ||
| Morphology | Solid | Cystoid | Solid | ||
| MRI signal intensity | T2‐weighted image (compared with cortex) | High | High | High | |
| Fluid‐attenuated inversion recovery image (compared with cortex) | High | High & Low | High | ||
| T1‐weighted image (compared with cortex) | Low | High & Low | Low | ||
| Apparent diffusion coefficient (10–3mm2/s) | 1.6 | 1.04 | 1.34 | ||
| Stalk‐like sign | No | Yes | Yes | ||
| Atrophy of the brain parenchyma near the tumor site | No | Yes | No | ||
| Contrast enhancement | No | No | Nodular |