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Online-Ressource
ISSN:
2699-4445
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Abstract: Introduction: Pilocytic astrocytoma (PA) is one of the most common primary intracranial neoplasms in childhood with an overall favorable prognosis. Despite decades of experience, there are still diagnostic and treatment challenges and unresolved issues regarding risk factors associated with recurrence, most often due to conclusions of publications with limited data. We analyzed 499 patients with PA diagnosed in a single institution over 30 years in order to provide answers to some of the unresolved issues. Materials and Methods: We identified pilocytic astrocytomas diagnosed at the University of California, San Francisco, between 1989 and 2019, confirmed the diagnoses using the WHO 2021 essential and desirable criteria, and performed a retrospective review of the demographic and clinical features of the patients and the radiological, pathologic and molecular features of the tumors. Results: Among the patients identified from pathology archives, 499 cases fulfilled the inclusion cri.... https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/fnp/article/view/5116
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volume:4
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year:2023
In:
Free Neuropathology, Muenster : Prof. Dr. Werner Paulus, University of Muenster, Institute of Neuropathology, [2020]-, 4 (2023), 2699-4445
Language:
English
DOI:
10.17879/freeneuropathology-2023-5116
URN:
urn:nbn:de:hbz:6:3-freeneuropathology-2023-52701
URL:
https://doi.org/10.17879/freeneuropathology-2023-5116
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https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6:3-freeneuropathology-2023-52701
URL:
https://d-nb.info/1314608975/34
URL:
https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/fnp/article/view/5116/5270