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Neurosurgery. 2004 Aug;55(2):340-7; discussion 347-8.


Evidence for a clinically distinct new subtype of grade II astrocytomas in patients with long-term epilepsy.

Schramm J, Luyken C, Urbach H, Fimmers R, Blumcke I.

Department of Neurosurgery, University of Bonn Medical Center, Bonn, Germany. Johannes.Schramm@ukb.uni-bonn.de

OBJECTIVE:
The authors tested the hypothesis that among Grade II astrocytomas with a particularly long seizure history, a subgroup is hidden with a different prognosis and possibly histological characteristics. To do so, clinical and histological characteristics of two groups of World Health Organization Grade II astrocytoma patients were analyzed: the long-term epilepsy-associated tumor (LEAT) astrocytoma group, with a mean duration of 12.5 years of seizures (n = 19), and the ordinary astrocytomas (n = 87), with a mean length of seizure history of 1.5 years (Non-LEAT).

METHODS:
All astrocytomas operated on between 1988 and 1999 were collected and followed up for 2 to 13 years (median, 7.0 yr). The 19 LEAT astrocytomas belonged to a group of 207 long-term epilepsy-associated tumors from the epilepsy surgery program. The 87 Non-LEAT cases were 60 so-called ordinary or diffuse World Health Organization Grade II astrocytomas and 27 oligoastrocytomas without long-term epilepsy operated on during the same time period. All tumor cases have been reviewed and partly reclassified as a result of the use of modern immunohistochemical techniques. Statistical analyses for possible discriminating factors included chi(2) test, Fisher´s exact test, Kaplan-Meier curves, and multifactorial analysis.

RESULTS:
Histological subtyping revealed a possible new isomorphic astrocytoma subtype in seven patients. By use of Kaplan-Meier curves, this isomorphic subtype had 50% fewer recurrences at 7.5 years and an estimated long-term survival of 80%. LEAT astrocytomas differed from ordinary Non-LEAT astrocytomas in overall length of history, younger age at first seizure, and higher percentage of 10-year survivors (80%). Temporal location did not influence outcome, and the presence of epilepsy per se was also not a prognostic factor.

CONCLUSION;
Differences between astrocytomas with a very long seizure history and those with a very short seizure history do exist. Significant factors for prognosis were age at surgery and presence of postoperative tumor residue but not the presence of epilepsy per se. A new subtype of astrocytomas, provisionally called isomorphic LEA astrocytoma, has putatively been identified with significantly better survival and lower recurrence rate. The negative prognostic factor of a gemistocytic differentiation pattern in diffuse astrocytomas was confirmed.

Weihnacht.

Are there any news to this topic?
(ordinary Astrozytom II vs. LEAT)

This information is 10 years old ...

Thanks in advance to Katja!
Weihnacht.

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