Manabu Natsumeda, Michael Chang, Ramil Gabdulkhaev, Haruhiko Takahashi, Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Yu Kanemaru, Masayasu Okada, Makoto Oishi, Kouichirou Okamoto, Fausto J Rodriguez, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yukihiko Fujii, Karisa C Schreck
Detection of BRAF V600E mutation in glioblastomas (GBMs) is important because of potential therapeutic implications. Still, the relative paucity of these mutations makes molecular detection in all GBMs controversial. In the present study, we analyzed clinical, radiographic and pathologic features of 12 BRAF V600E-mutant GBMs and 12 matched controls from 2 institutions. We found that a majority of BRAF V600E-mutant GBMs displayed a combination of well-circumscribed lesions, large cystic components with thin walls and solid cortical component on MRI, but with some overlap with matched BRAF wildtype controls (p = 0...
July 2021: Brain Tumor Pathology