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Erschienen in: Child's Nervous System 7/2015

01.07.2015 | Original Paper

Delayed diagnosis of childhood low-grade glioma: causes, consequences, and potential solutions

verfasst von: Aska Arnautovic, Catherine Billups, Alberto Broniscer, Amar Gajjar, Frederick Boop, Ibrahim Qaddoumi

Erschienen in: Child's Nervous System | Ausgabe 7/2015

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Abstract

Purpose

Diagnosis of childhood brain tumors is delayed more than diagnosis of other pediatric cancers. However, the contribution of the most common pediatric brain tumors, lowgrade gliomas (LGG), to this delay has never been investigated.

Methods

We retrospectively reviewed cases of childhood LGG diagnosed from January 1995 through December 2005 at our institution. The pre-diagnosis symptom interval (PSI) was conservatively calculated, and its association with race, sex, age, tumor site, tumor grade, and outcome measures (survival, disease progression, shunt use, seizures, extent of resection) was analyzed. Cases of neurofibromatosis type 1 were reported separately.

Results

The 258 children had a median follow-up of 11.1 years, and 226 (88 %) remained alive. Greater pre-diagnosis symptom interval (PSI) was significantly associated with grade I (vs. grade II) tumors (p = 0.03) and age >10 years at diagnosis (p = 0.03). Half of the 16 spinal tumors had a PSI > 6 months. PSI was significantly associated with progression (p = 0.02) in grade I tumors (n = 195) and in grade I tumors outside the posterior fossa (n = 134, p = 0.03). Among children with grade I tumors, median PSI was longer in those who had seizures (10.3 months) than in those who did not (2.5 months) (p = 0.09).

Conclusions

Delayed diagnosis of childhood LGG allows tumor progression. To reduce time to diagnosis, medical curricula should emphasize inclusion of LGG in the differential diagnosis of CNS neoplasm.
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Metadaten
Titel
Delayed diagnosis of childhood low-grade glioma: causes, consequences, and potential solutions
verfasst von
Aska Arnautovic
Catherine Billups
Alberto Broniscer
Amar Gajjar
Frederick Boop
Ibrahim Qaddoumi
Publikationsdatum
01.07.2015
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Child's Nervous System / Ausgabe 7/2015
Print ISSN: 0256-7040
Elektronische ISSN: 1433-0350
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-015-2670-1

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