2020
Tumor Location and Treatment Modality are Associated with Overall Survival in Adult Medulloblastoma
K A, Freedman I, Lee JH, Miyagishima D, Ahmed O, Yeung J. Tumor Location and Treatment Modality are Associated with Overall Survival in Adult Medulloblastoma. Cureus 2020, 12: e7061. PMID: 32226663, PMCID: PMC7089624, DOI: 10.7759/cureus.7061.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTumor locationOverall survivalAdult medulloblastomaPrognostic factorsAdult casesTreatment modalitiesSurvival timeMultivariate Cox proportional hazards modelWorse median survival timeCox proportional hazards modelOverall median survivalSignificant prognostic factorsBetter overall survivalEnd Results registryMedian survival timeMultivariate survival analysisUnited States SurveillanceProportional hazards modelCourse of treatmentAggressive brain tumorYears of ageMedian survivalSEER registryShorter survivalClinical variables
2019
Correlations between genomic subgroup and clinical features in a cohort of more than 3000 meningiomas.
Youngblood MW, Duran D, Montejo JD, Li C, Omay SB, Özduman K, Sheth AH, Zhao AY, Tyrtova E, Miyagishima DF, Fomchenko EI, Hong CS, Clark VE, Riche M, Peyre M, Boetto J, Sohrabi S, Koljaka S, Baranoski JF, Knight J, Zhu H, Pamir MN, Avşar T, Kilic T, Schramm J, Timmer M, Goldbrunner R, Gong Y, Bayri Y, Amankulor N, Hamilton RL, Bilguvar K, Tikhonova I, Tomak PR, Huttner A, Simon M, Krischek B, Kalamarides M, Erson-Omay EZ, Moliterno J, Günel M. Correlations between genomic subgroup and clinical features in a cohort of more than 3000 meningiomas. Journal Of Neurosurgery 2019, 133: 1345-1354. PMID: 31653806, DOI: 10.3171/2019.8.jns191266.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchClinical featuresGenomic subgroupsExact testAnterior skull base regionElevated Ki-67 indexLarge peritumoral brain edemaPeritumoral brain edemaKi-67 indexModerate predictive valueFisher's exact testRelevant clinical informationMicrocystic featuresNF2 meningiomasInvasive sampling proceduresMale patientsBrain edemaFemale sexTumor locationPatient variablesDiscovery cohortSkull base regionMidline locationPatient featuresClinical informationPredictive value