Joanna K Tabor, Alper Dincer, Joseph O'Brien, Haoyi Lei, Shaurey Vetsa, Sagar Vasandani, Muhammad I Jalal, Kanat Yalcin, Saul F Morales-Valero, Neelan Marianayagam, Hasan Alanya, Aladine A Elsamadicy, Miguel A Millares Chavez, Stephanie M Aguilera, Ketu Mishra-Gorur, Declan McGuone, Robert K Fulbright, Lan Jin, E Zeynep Erson-Omay, Murat Günel, Jennifer Moliterno
OBJECTIVE: The influence of socioeconomic factors on racial disparities among patients with sporadic meningiomas is well established, yet other potential causative factors warrant further exploration. The authors of this study aimed to determine whether there is significant variation in the genomic profile of meningiomas among patients of different races and ethnicities and its correlation with clinical outcomes. METHODS: The demographic, genomic, and clinical data of patients aged 18 years and older who had undergone surgery for sporadic meningioma between September 2008 and November 2021 were analyzed...
March 22, 2024: Journal of Neurosurgery