Research Article
The Clinical, Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Prognostic Characteristics of Brain Metastases in Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review
Table 1
The demographic information of all included studies reporting BMs in PCa.
| Author | Year of publication | Type of studies | Total sample size | Quality assessment (good, fair, or poor) | Reference |
| Sena et al. | 2021 | Case report | 1 | Good | [36] | Pikis et al. | 2021 | Case series | 46 | Good | [37] | Parihar et al. | 2021 | Case report | 1 | Good | [38] | Hung et al. | 2021 | Retrospective study | 204 | Good | [39] | Boxley et al. | 2021 | Retrospective study | 29 | Fair | [40] | Son et al. | 2020 | Case report | 1 | Fair | [30] | Shida et al. | 2020 | Case report | 3 | Good | [29] | Saadatpour et al. | 2020 | Case report | 1 | Fair | [41] | Ross et al. | 2020 | Case report | 1 | Good | [28] | Nguyen et al. | 2020 | Retrospective cohort | 21 | Fair | [42] | Marchand Crety et al. | 2020 | Case report | 1 | Good | [27] | Liu et al. | 2020 | Case report | 1 | Good | [26] | Janda et al. | 2020 | Case report | 1 | Good | [24] | Bhambhvani et al. | 2020 | Retrospective cohort | 31 | Good | [13] | Aljarba et al. | 2020 | Case report | 1 | Good | [32] | Ahmad et al. | 2020 | Case report | 1 | Good | [43] | Kosaka et al. | 2019 | Case report | 1 | Fair | [23] | Kanyilmaz et al. | 2019 | Retrospective cohort | 339 | Good | [44] | Ishizaki et al. | 2019 | Case report | 1 | Good | [22] | Hogan et al. | 2019 | Case report | 1 | Good | [45] | Zanatta et al. | 2018 | Case report | 1 | Good | [46] | Reinas et al. | 2018 | Case report | 1 | Fair | [47] | Nunno et al. | 2018 | Case report | 1 | Fair | [48] | Jack et al. | 2018 | Case report | 1 | Good | [49] | Campagna et al. | 2018 | Case report | 1 | Fair | [21] | Watanabe et al. | 2017 | Case report | 1 | Good | [20] | Lam et al. | 2017 | Case report | 2 | Fair | [19] | Chang et al. | 2017 | Case report | 1 | Good | [18] | Guraya et al. | 2016 | Case report | 1 | Good | [50] | Barakat et al. | 2016 | Case report | 1 | Good | [17] | Mandaliya et al. | 2015 | Case report | 2 | Good | [51] | Hutton et al. | 2015 | Case report | 1 | Fair | [16] | Gajewska et al. | 2015 | Case report | 1 | Fair | [15] | Craig et al. | 2015 | Case report | 1 | Good | [14] | Hatzoglou et al. | 2014 | Retrospective cohort | 21 | Good | [10] | Placido et al. | 2014 | Case report | 3 | Fair | [52] | Hazell et al. | 2013 | Case report | 4 | Good | [53] | Caffo et al. | 2013 | Cohort | 9 | Fair | [54] | Caffo et al. | 2012 | Case series | 22 | Good | [55] | Flannery et al. | 2010 | Case series | 10 | Good | [56] | Yamada et al. | 2009 | Case report | 1 | Good | [57] | Sweets et al. | 2009 | Case report | 1 | Good | [58] | Kim et al. | 2008 | Case series | 5 | Good | [59] | Grenader et al. | 2007 | Case report | 1 | Good | [60] | Lyons et al. | 2006 | Case report | 1 | Good | [61] | Wullich et al. | 2004 | Case report | 2 | Fair | [62] | Schoenwaelder et al. | 2004 | Case report | 1 | Good | [63] | Tremont-Lukats et al. | 2003 | Case series | 103 | Good | [9] | Erasmus et al. | 2002 | Case report | 1 | Good | [64] | Minami, H. | 2001 | Case report | 1 | Fair | [65] | Behrens et al. | 2001 | Case report | 1 | Good | [66] | Garcia-Morales et al. | 2000 | Case report | 1 | Good | [67] | Fervenza et al. | 2000 | Case report | 1 | Good | [68] | Hayashi et al. | 1998 | Case report | 1 | Fair | [69] | Zhang et al. | 1997 | Case report | 1 | Fair | [70] | Leibman et al. | 1995 | Case report | 2 | Good | [71] | Bland et al. | 1992 | Case report | 1 | Good | [72] | Lynes et al. | 1986 | Case report | 2 | Good | [73] | Sarma et al. | 1983 | Case report | 4 | Fair | [74] |
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