title: The prognostic importance of CT features in primary intracranial lymphoma.
abstract: The correlation of computerized tomography (CT) features with survival of 28 patients with primary intracranial lymphoma was analysed retrospectively. Severe perifocal oedema, periventricular tumours and lesions which were non-homogenously enhancing or non-enhancing were found to be associated with a poor prognosis. The prognosis when multiple lesions were present was almost the same as that of a solitary lesion (p = 0.95). Ring enhancing lesions had considerably longer survival. Lesions in the frontal region and those close to the meninges, enhancing homogeneously, had a better prognosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Namasivayam
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Teasdale
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000401:mortality; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed