Treatment of incidentally discovered low-grade gliomas: "watch-and-wait" or not?

Yu Yao; Liang-Fu Zhou

doi:10.1016/j.wneu.2012.10.022

Treatment of incidentally discovered low-grade gliomas: "watch-and-wait" or not?

World Neurosurg. 2013 Nov;80(5):e121-2. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2012.10.022. Epub 2012 Oct 24.

Authors

Yu Yao¹, Liang-Fu Zhou

Affiliation

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.

PMID: 23103272
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2012.10.022

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Keywords: (11)C-MET; FET; IDLGGs; Incidental findings; Incidentally discovered low-grade gliomas; LGGs; Low-grade gliomas; MRI; MRS; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Management protocols; O-(2-[(18)F]fluoroethyl)-l-tyrosine; PET; Perfusion magnetic resonance imaging; Positron emission tomography; T1-weighted image; T1WI; T2-weighted image; T2WI; l-[methyl-(11)C]-methionine; pMRI.

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Brain Neoplasms / pathology*
Brain Neoplasms / surgery*
Glioma / pathology*
Glioma / surgery*
Humans
Neurosurgery*