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Table 2 Pattern of involvements in patients with NSC region metastases and incidence of NSC lesions in different groups

From: Analyses of distribution and dosimetry of brain metastases in small cell lung cancer with relation to the neural stem cell regions: feasibility of sparing the hippocampus in prophylactic cranial irradiation

 

SVZ

P

Hippocampusa

P

No. of involved patients (%)

15a (6.3%)

_

14a (5.9%)

_

No. of specific metastases in involved patients (%)

15 (1.0%)

_

15b (1.0%)

_

Total Number of intracranial metastases

 Oligometastatis pts

0/150 (0.0%)

0.000

1/150 (0.7%)

0.000

 Non-oligometastatic pts

15/88 (17.0%)

13/88 (14.8%)

Therapy processes

 BMs identified at Diagnosis

3/97 (3.1%)

0.109

6/97 (6.2%)

1.000

 BMs identified during or after treatments

12/141 (8.5%)

8/141 (5.7%)

Symptoms

 Symptomatic BMs

5/65 (7.7%)

0.561

1/65 (1.5%)

0.120

 Asymptomatic BMs

10/173 (5.8%)

13/173 (7.5%)

  1. SVZ subventricular zone, pts patients, BMs brain metastases
  2. aIncluding 6 patients have hippocampus and SVZ simultaneously implicated
  3. b1 patient has bilateral hippocampi involved