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Cerebrospinal Fluid Profiles and Their Changes after Intraventricular Chemotherapy as Prognostic or Predictive Markers for Patients with Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis
- Source :
- Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Korean Neurosurgical Society, 2021.
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Abstract
- Objective Here, we evaluated whether cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) profiles and their changes after intraventricular chemotherapy for leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LMC) could predict the treatment response or be prognostic for patient overall survival (OS) along with clinical factors. Methods Paired 1) pretreatment lumbar, 2) pretreatment ventricular, and 3) posttreatment ventricular samples and their CSF profiles were collected retrospectively from 148 LMC patients who received Ommaya reservoir installation and intraventricular chemotherapy. CSF profile changes were assessed by calculating the differences between posttreatment and pretreatment samples from the same ventricular compartment. CSF cell counts were further differentiated into total and other based on clinical laboratory reports. Results For the treatment response, a decreased CSF ‘total’ cell count tended to be associated with a ‘controlled’ increase in intracranial pressure (ICP) (p=0.059), but other profile changes were not associated with either the control of increased ICP or the cytology response. Among the pretreatment CSF profiles, lumbar protein level and ventricular cell count were significantly correlated with OS in univariable analysis, but they were not significant in multi-variable analysis. Among CSF profile changes, a decrease in ‘other’ cell count showed worse OS than ‘no change’ or increased groups (p=0.001). The cytological response was significant for OS, but the hazard ratio of partial remission was paradoxically higher than that of ‘no response’. Conclusion A decrease in other cell count of CSF after intraventricular chemotherapy was associated with poor OS in LMC patients. We suggest that more specific CSF biomarkers of cancer cell origin are needed.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Clinical Article
Tumor
Spinal puncture
business.industry
General Neuroscience
Hazard ratio
Meningeal carcinomatosis
Prognosis
medicine.disease
Gastroenterology
Cerebrospinal fluid
Lumbar
Internal medicine
Cytology
Cancer cell
medicine
Ommaya reservoir
Surgery
Neurology (clinical)
business
Injections, Intraventricular
Intracranial pressure
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15987876 and 20053711
- Volume :
- 64
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....45caf8a5cc8c8f8ba05ec99245b61d8e