paediatrics Brussels 17

Intracranial ependymoma

Prognostic factors Tumour site (infratentorial / supratentorial) progression – free survival at 5 years

Author

Pat.

Tumour site Survival

p-value

Schild et al., 1998

45

Infratent. 68% Supratent. 62% Infratent. 53.1% Supratent. 72.4% Infratent. 65.8% Supratent. 82.9% Infratent. 42.5% Supratent. 50.9% Infratent. 65.2% Supratent. 31.3%

n. s.

Timmermann et al. 2000*

29

n. s.

26

Merchant 2008 et al.**

122

0.16 / n. s.

31

Jaing et al.,2004

28

n. s.

15

Mansur et al.,2005

48

n. s.

12

* 3 year event-free survival, ** 7 year event-free survival