Kathryn L Eschbacher, Quynh T Tran, Evgeny A Moskalev, Sarah Jenkins, Karen Fritchie, Robert Stoehr, Alissa Caron, Michael J Link, Paul D Brown, Andrew Guajardo, Daniel J Brat, Ashley Wu, Sandro Santagata, David N Louis, Priscilla K Brastianos, Alexander B Kaplan, Brian Alexander, Sabrina Rossi, Fabio Ferrarese, David R Raleigh, Minh P Nguyen, John Gross, Jose Velazquez Vega, Fausto Rodriguez, Arie Perry, Maria Martinez-Lage, Brent A Orr, Florian Haller, Caterina Giannini
Meningeal solitary fibrous tumors (SFT) are rare and have a high frequency of local recurrence and distant metastasis. In a cohort of 126 patients (57 female, 69 male; mean age at surgery 53.0 years) with pathologically confirmed meningeal SFTs with extended clinical follow-up (median 9.9 years; range 15 days-43 years), we performed extensive molecular characterization including genome-wide DNA methylation profiling (n = 80) and targeted TERT promoter mutation testing (n = 98)...
March 24, 2024: Brain Pathology