Brain scanning in oligodendrogliomas: a detailed neuropathology-scan correlation of 34 histologically verified cases.
Thirty-six brain scans and biopsies from 34 patients with histologically verified oligodendrogliomas were evaluated. Twenty-nine of the 36 scans were positive (80.6%) but the abnormal uptake produced by these neoplasms had no distinguishing features. The levels of endothelial proliferation-vascularity, necrosis, and mitoses were significantly different between the positive and negative scans. In the oligodendrogliomas, the relationship between histologic malignancy, detectability on scan, and prognosis remains unresolved.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009837:Oligodendroglioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging