Total diagnostic interval in children with brain tumours in a middle-income country: national experience from Serbia.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The aim was to evaluate the total diagnostic interval (TDI) and presenting complaints in children with brain tumours in Serbia.

Methods

This study retrospectively analysed 212 children aged 0-18 years newly diagnosed with brain tumours in two tertiary centres from mid-March 2015 to mid-March 2020 covering virtually all children with brain tumours in Serbia. TDI was calculated as the difference between the date of diagnosis and the date of symptom onset presented as a median in weeks. This variable has been evaluable for 184 patients.

Results

Overall TDI was 6 weeks. TDI was significantly longer in patients with low-grade tumours (11 weeks) than in patients with high-grade tumours (4 weeks). Children with the most frequent complaints (headache, nausea/vomiting

SUBMITTER: Jovanovic A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10127958 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature