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- Title
Impact of pretreatment growth on Tumor control for vestibular schwannomas following gamma knife.
- Authors
Chang, Joseph; Breshears, Jonathan D.; Molinaro, Annette M.; Sneed, Penny K.; McDermott, Michael W.; Theodosopoulos, Philip V.; Tward, Aaron D.
- Abstract
<bold>Objectives/hypothesis: </bold>To determine if volumetric growth prior to gamma knife (GK) radiosurgery predicts long-term tumor control.<bold>Study Design: </bold>Retrospective cohort study.<bold>Methods: </bold>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.<bold>Results: </bold>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).<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Pretreatment growth was not associated with increased salvage treatment or posttreatment radiographic progression rates in VS following GK.<bold>Level Of Evidence: </bold>4 Laryngoscope, 129:743-747, 2019.
- Subjects
TUMOR growth; VOLUMETRIC analysis; KNIVES; TERTIARY care; ACOUSTIC neuroma; ANTHROPOMETRY; LONGITUDINAL method; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSURGERY; TIME; RETROSPECTIVE studies; PREOPERATIVE period
- Publication
Laryngoscope, 2019, Vol 129, Issue 3, p743
- ISSN
0023-852X
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/lary.27427