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Table 1 Angiosarcoma of the brain in adults: case reports and series

From: Primary central nervous system angiosarcoma: two case reports

Series

Sex

Age

Location

Therapy

Survival

Charman et al. [5]

M

65

Occipital

Surgery

12 months

Paulus et al. [3]

M; F

24; 26

Temporal; frontal

Unknown

Unknown

Mena et al. [1]

M (5), F (3)

2 weeks to 72 years (mean 38 years)

Hemisphere (6), meninges (1), unknown (1)

Surgery

Four months (4), 30 months (1), alive 39 months (1), alive 102 months (1), unknown (1)

Cookston et al. [6]

F

32

Occipital

Surgery + RT

Alive three-and-a-half years

Fuse et al. [7]

M

39

Parietal

Surgery + RT

29 months

Antoniadis et al. [4]

M

41

Parietal

Surgery + RT + chemotherapy

Alive 41 months

Lach and Benoit [9]

M

37

Frontoparietal

Surgery

18 months

Merimsky et al. [2]

M; M

27; 18

Parietal; occipitoparietal

Radiation only; surgery

Two-and-a-half months; five months

  1. The study of Mena et al. includes two pediatric cases whose data are entangled with the adult cases. These two cases are not included in our discussion.
  2. RT radiation therapy.