Table 1:

TRUTH standard lesion diagnoses

Specific DiagnosisN = 444 (%)
Malignant tumor diagnoses (n = 293) (66%)
    Anaplastic astrocytoma (grade III)12 (2.7)
    Glioblastoma multiforme (grade IV)55 (12.4)
    Anaplastic oligodendroglioma (grade III)4 (0.9)
    Anaplastic oligoastrocytoma (grade III)8 (1.8)
    Ependymoastrocytoma2 (0.5)
    Malignant lymphoma1 (0.2)
    Metastatic tumors211 (47.5)
Benign tumor diagnoses (n = 80) (18%)
    Astrocytoma (grade II)2 (0.5)
    Pilocytic astrocytoma (noninvasive, grade I)1 (0.2)
    Oligodendroglioma (grade II)1 (0.2)
    Ependymoma (grade II)1 (0.2)
    Mixed oligoastrocytoma (grade II)1 (0.2)
    Pineocytoma (grade I)1 (0.2)
    Pituitary adenoma5 (1.1)
    Craniopharyngioma (grade I)1 (0.2)
    Meningioma (grade I)38 (8.6)
    Atypical meningioma (grade II)9 (2.0)
    Benign mesenchymal tumor1 (0.2)
    Melanocytoma1 (0.2)
    Hemangioblastoma (grade I)1 (0.2)
    Schwannoma (neurinoma, neurilemmoma) (grade I)16 (3.6)
    Cysts and tumorlike lesions (epidermoid)1 (0.2)
Nontumor diagnoses (n = 71) (16%)
    White matter disease1 (0.2)
    Vascular lesion10 (2.3)
    Infective/inflammatory disease2 (0.5)
    Infarct1 (0.2)
    Hemorrhage1 (0.2)
    Postoperative/posttreatment changes56 (12.6)