TABLE 2:

Surgical, pathologic, and therapeutic data

Patient No.	Surgery	Therapy	Pathology	Follow-up
1	Partial resection	Radiation: 5012 cGy	Tanycytes; occlusion of bilateral internal carotid arteries (Fig. 1A–D)	Deceased <1 yr from initial diagnosis; bilateral, massive strokes
		chemo: carboplatin vincristine
2	Partial resection	Radiation: 5040 cGy	Tanycytes; (Fig. 2E–G)	Decrease residual tumor
		chemo: carboplatin vincristine	Tanycytes; (Fig. 2E–G)	Decrease residual tumor
3	Partial resection	Radiation: 5400 cGy	Tanycytes; encased circle of Willis	Deceased <1 yr from initial diagnosis; cardiac arrest
		chemo: carboplatin vincristine	Tanycytes; encased circle of Willis	Deceased <1 yr from initial diagnosis; cardiac arrest
4	Complete resection	Radiation: 5400 cGy	Tanycytes; + GFAP stain, + synaptophysin stain (Fig. 3D and E)	Lost to follow-up
5	Complete resection	None	Tanycytes	No recurrence at 4 months