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Intracranial ependymoma Primarily local relapses!

Pattern of relapse

Author

Pat.

Survival after 5 years

Local relapses

Goldwein et al. 1990 Grabenbauer et al.,1991

51

46%

29/30

31

54%

8/13

Timmermann

et

55

76% (3 years)

20/25

al.,2000

Guyotat et al., 2002

34

62%

16/17

Massimino et al., 2004

63

75%

15/23

Merchant et al 2008

153

81 % (7 Jahre)

21/36