[Results of surgical treatment of anaplastic cerebral gliomas].
In the years 1971 through 1977 247 patients with anaplastic cerebral gliomas were treated. Out of this material a group of 119 patients was completed who were treated only surgically and had follow-up examinations or responded to an inquiry form sent to them. In the light of this follow-up study it was established that the survival time was shortest, only up to 6 months, in the patients with preclinical symptoms lasting up to 3 months. In the remaining patients the survival time was longer, reaching over one year in 11 cases and over 2 years in 3 cases. In view of the mode of spread of recurrent neoplasm the authors differentiated exophytous expansion - with the infiltration filling the postoperative tissue defect and extending beyond its margins, infiltrative expansion - with the infiltration spreading on the walls of the postoperative tissue defect, destructive expansion - with the neoplasm infiltrating and destroying the brain tissue. Two latter modes of growth were most frequent and led to death of the patients without producing signs of intracranial hypertension.
D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005909:Glioblastoma / Q000601:surgery; D005910:Glioma / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D009837:Oligodendroglioma / Q000601:surgery; D013997:Time Factors
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