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Multifocal glioblastoma

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Last revised by Bálint Botz on 9 Jan 2021

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Gaillard F, Botz B, Glick Y, et al. Multifocal glioblastoma. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 27 Mar 2025) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-38148

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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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11 times, by 7 contributors - see full revision history and disclosures

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Central Nervous System

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Multifocal glioblastomas

Multifocal glioblastomas are tumors which have multiple discrete areas of contrast-enhancing tumor embedded with, or connected by, T2/FLAIR signal abnormality. Multifocal glioblastomas are considered to be part of the one tumor 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 tumors ^2,3.

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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 tumors.

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