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SUBMITTER: Haapala I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9139325 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Haapala Ilkka I Kondratev Anton A Roine Antti A Mäkelä Meri M Kontunen Anton A Karjalainen Markus M Laakso Aki A Koroknay-Pál Päivi P Nordfors Kristiina K Haapasalo Hannu H Oksala Niku N Vehkaoja Antti A Haapasalo Joonas J
Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) 20220504 5
Isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) mutation status is an important factor for surgical decision-making: patients with IDH-mutated tumors are more likely to have a good long-term prognosis, and thus favor aggressive resection with more survival benefit to gain. Patients with IDH wild-type tumors have generally poorer prognosis and, therefore, conservative resection to avoid neurological deficit is favored. Current histopathological analysis with frozen sections is unable to identify IDH mutation stat ...[more]