Advances in the relationship between temporal muscle thickness and prognosis of patients with glioblastoma: a narrative review.

ABSTRACT: The most dangerous variety of glioma, glioblastoma, has a high incidence and fatality rate. The prognosis for patients is still bleak despite numerous improvements in treatment approaches. We urgently need to develop clinical parameters that can evaluate patients' conditions and predict their prognosis. Various parameters are available to assess the patient's preoperative performance status and degree of frailty, but most of these parameters are subjective and therefore subject to interobserver variability. Sarcopenia can be used as an objective metric to measure a patient's physical status because studies have shown that it is linked to a bad prognosis in those with cancers. For the purpose of identifying sarcopenia, temporal muscle thickness has demonstrated to be a reliable alternative

SUBMITTER: Tang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10525700 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature