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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Sujit Routray, M.D. [2]
Overview
Surgery is the first-line treatment option for patients with oligoastrocytoma.[1] CSF shunting is usually reserved for patients with hydrocephalus.[2]
Surgery
Surgical Resection
- Surgical resection is the first-line treatment option for patients with oligoastrocytoma.[1]
- The aim of surgery is to:[3]
- Make a definitive diagnosis
- Debulk the tumor to relieve elevated intracranial pressure
- Reduce the tumor mass as a precursor to adjuvant treatment
CSF Shunt
- CSF shunting is performed to relieve the pressure in the brain due to blockade in the flow of cerebrospinal fluid due to oligoastrocytoma.[2]
- External ventricular drain - temporary shunt
- Internal drain - permanent shunt
- Drains CSF into the patient’s abdomen where it is absorbed into the body
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Treatment of mixed gliomas. Canadian Cancer Society 2015. http://www.cancer.ca/en/cancer-information/cancer-type/brain-spinal/brain-and-spinal-tumours/mixed-glioma/?region=on. Accessed on October 20, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Li KW, Roonprapunt C, Lawson HC, Abbott IR, Wisoff J, Epstein F; et al. (2005). "Endoscopic third ventriculostomy for hydrocephalus associated with tectal gliomas". Neurosurg Focus. 18 (6A): E2. PMID 16048288.
- ↑ Eskandar EN, Loeffler JS, O'Neill AM, Hunter GJ, Louis DN (2004). "Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 33-2004. A 34-year-old man with a seizure and a frontal-lobe brain lesion". N Engl J Med. 351 (18): 1875–82. doi:10.1056/NEJMcpc049025. PMID 15509821.