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ReviewNeurosurgical review2014

Current management of choroid plexus carcinomas.

Matthew Z Sun, Michael C Oh, Michael E Ivan, Gurvinder Kaur, Michael Safaee, Joseph M Kim, Joanna J Phillips, Kurtis I Auguste, Andrew T Parsa

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Review in Neurosurgical review, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
28citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 65 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  3. Choroid Plexus Pathophysiology.Annual review of pathology · 2025
    Review
  4. Article
  5. Preclinical validation of a novel therapeutic strategy for choroid plexus carcinoma.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2023
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  14. Choroid Plexus Carcinoma in Adults: Two Case Reports.Brain tumor research and treatment · 2019
    Article
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  16. Establishing a Preclinical Multidisciplinary Board for Brain Tumors.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Matthew Z SunDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave., San Francisco, CA, 94117, USA.
Michael C Oh
Michael E Ivan
Gurvinder Kaur
Michael Safaee
Joseph M Kim
Joanna J Phillips
Kurtis I Auguste
Andrew T Parsa
University of California, San Francisco · USNeurological Surgery · USNorthwestern University · US

Funding

Complement activation promotes CD133+ glioma cell proliferationF32NS073326 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI OH, MICHAEL C · 2011 to 2011
$57k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNINDS NIH HHS F32NS073326-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Choroid plexus carcinoma (CPC) is a World Health Organization (WHO) grade III brain tumor with a poor prognosis that occurs mainly in children. Gross total resection of CPC is highly recommended and is associated with improved overall survival, although it is often associated with increased morbidity. The use of adjuvant therapies has yet to be standardized, although evidence suggests that for patients with incompletely resected CPCs, a combination of chemotherapy and radiation therapy may be beneficial. The use of radiation therapy for younger children (<3 years old) with CPC, however, is not recommended, due to the potential negative neurological sequelae associated with radiation to the developing brain. Given that the majority of CPC patients are young children, questions regarding optimal radiation dose, chemotherapy agents, and how to combine these two adjuvant treatment modalities to achieve the best outcomes remain unanswered. In this paper we summarize the current management of CPC in the literature. Further studies are needed to standardize the treatment paradigm for this malignant brain tumor.

Indexed as

Brain NeoplasmsCarcinomaChoroid Plexus NeoplasmsCombined Modality TherapyHumansTreatment Outcome

Identifiers

PMID24068529
OpenAlexW2072877069

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