Research Article
Outcome of Elderly Patients with Meningioma after Image-Guided Stereotactic Radiotherapy: A Study of 100 Cases
Table 1
Patient characteristics.
| | Overall collective | | () | | Median | Min/max |
| Age with beginning of RT | 71 | 65/87 | Tumor volume | 6.4 | 0.26/86.39 |
| | | % |
| Gender | | | m | 36 | 36.7 | f | 62 | 63.3 | Location | | | Skull base | 78 | 79.6 | Falx/parasagittal | 8 | 8.2 | Convexity | 12 | 12.2 | WHO grading | | | n/a | 77 | 77.6 | WHO 1 | 8 | 8.2 | WHO 2 | 8 | 8.2 | WHO 3 | 5 | 5.1 | Prior surgery | | | Primary RT | 61 | 62.2 | Adjuvant RT | 37 | 37.8 | Peritumoral edema | | | Yes | 4 | 4.1 | Multiple meningiomas | | | Yes | 26 | 26.5 | Fractionation scheme | | | FSRT | 50 | 51 | hFSRT | 38 | 38.8 | SRS | 10 | 10.2 |
| | Median | Min/max |
| FSRT total dose (Gy) | 56.5 | 28.8/72 | hFSRT total dose (Gy) | 36.3 | 30/42 | SRS total dose (Gy) | 17.6 | 13.5/21.4 |
| Follow-up time in months | 37 | 1/132 |
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