Sie befinden Sich nicht im Netzwerk der Universität Paderborn. Der Zugriff auf elektronische Ressourcen ist gegebenenfalls nur via VPN oder Shibboleth (DFN-AAI) möglich. mehr Informationen...
Impact of pretreatment growth on Tumor control for vestibular schwannomas following gamma knife
Ist Teil von
The Laryngoscope, 2019-03, Vol.129 (3), p.743-747
Ort / Verlag
United States: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Erscheinungsjahr
2019
Quelle
Wiley-Blackwell Journals
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Objectives/Hypothesis
To determine if volumetric growth prior to gamma knife (GK) radiosurgery predicts long‐term tumor control.
Study Design
Retrospective cohort study.
Methods
Sporadic vestibular schwannomas (VS) treated with GK between 2002 and 2014 at a single tertiary care center were identified. Patients were included if they had over 6 months of pretreatment observation and over 1.5 years of posttreatment follow‐up. Volumetric tumor analysis was performed on T1 postcontrast imaging. Pretreatment and posttreatment volume change was calculated. Tumors with over 20% volume increase were classified as growing.
Results
There were 62 patients included in this study; 48 had pretreatment growth and 14 had no pretreatment growth. Median tumor volume was 0.58 ± 1.8 cm3 and median follow‐up was 3.3 ± 2.0 years. For tumors with and without pretreatment growth, salvage treatment rates were 2% and 7% (P = .35), and posttreatment radiologic stability rates were 73% and 86%, respectively (P = .33). Median pretreatment growth was 27 ± 33% per year for tumors with posttreatment radiographic growth and 18 ± 26% per year for tumors without posttreatment radiographic growth (P = .99).
Conclusions
Pretreatment growth was not associated with increased salvage treatment or posttreatment radiographic progression rates in VS following GK.
Level of Evidence
4 Laryngoscope, 129:743–747, 2019