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Table 4 Literature overview of large series of adult brain stem glioma: histological confirmation of diagnosis varied between 13% and 100% (actual study)

From: Retrospective analysis of 104 histologically proven adult brainstem gliomas: clinical symptoms, therapeutic approaches and prognostic factors

Author

N

Histology

HGG

LGG

Median OS

Landolfi (1998)

23

3 (13.0%)

1 (33.3%)

2 (66.7%)

54.0 months

Salmaggi (2008)

34

20 (58.8%)

11 (55.0%)

9 (45.0%)

59.0 months

Guillamo (2001)

48

32 (67.0%)

15 (46.9%)

17 (53.1%)

64.8 months

Kesari (2008)

101

46 (45.5%)

31 (68.9%)

15 (31.1%)

85.0 months

Reithmeier (2013)

104

104* (100.0%)

46 (44.7%)

57 (55.3%)

18.8 months

  1. *In one patient grading was not performed.