Multifocal glioblastoma

Last revised by Bálint Botz on 9 Jan 2021

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Citation:

Gaillard F, Botz B, Glick Y, et al. Multifocal glioblastoma. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 19 Apr 2024) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-38148

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-38148

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https://radiopaedia.org/articles/38148

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38148

Article created:

8 Jul 2015, Frank Gaillard ◉ ◈

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At the time the article was created Frank Gaillard had no recorded disclosures.

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Last revised:

9 Jan 2021, Bálint Botz ◉

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At the time the article was last revised Bálint Botz had no recorded disclosures.

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Systems:

Central Nervous System

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Multifocal glioblastomas

Multifocal glioblastomas are tumours which have multiple discrete areas of contrast-enhancing tumour embedded with, or connected by, T2/FLAIR signal abnormality. Multifocal glioblastomas are considered to be part of the one tumour and are commonly encountered, accounting for 2-20% of all glioblastomas ^3,4.

Multifocal glioblastomas have been shown to have a poorer prognosis than solitary tumours ^2,3.

Differential diagnosis

This is in contrast to multicentric glioblastomas, which have enhancing foci with normal intervening brain, and are thought to more likely represent synchronous but separate tumours.

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