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SUBMITTER: You HJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5058842 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
You Hye Jin HJ Park Ho-Young HY Kim Jinkuk J Lee In-Hee IH Seol Ho Jun HJ Lee Jung-Il JI Kim Sung Tae ST Kong Doo-Sik DS Nam Do-Hyun DH
Medicine 20160701 27
Despite therapeutic advances, the prognosis for glioblastoma (GBM) remains poor. In particular, leptomeningeal dissemination (LMD) has a dismal prognosis. The aim of this study was to identify tumor molecular phenotype, which has a great propensity to develop LMD. Between May 2004 and December 2012, a total of 145 GBM tumor samples were obtained from data registry. A total of 20 of the 145 patients with GBM were found to develop LMD. A specialized radiologist confirmed the diagnosis of LMD on ma ...[more]