Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients.

From: Cortical thickness deviations as biomarker for subtyping and prognosis in pediatric brainstem tumors

Variables

Catergory

N (%)

Mean

Median

SD

Age

–

–

8.4

8.0

3.4

Duration

–

–

5.5

2.0

11.4

KPS

–

–

80

80

10

tumor_volume/mm3

–

–

27.0

25.9

14.7

tOCN_CT

–

–

4

2

5

tOCP_CT

–

–

4

3

4

Gender

Boy

72 (49%)

–

–

–

Girl

73 (51%)

–

–

–

Tumor growth pattern

Focal

31 (21.4%)

–

–

–

Diffuse

114 (78.6%)

–

–

–

Location

Midbrain

11 (7.6%)

–

–

–

Pons

89 (61.4%)

–

–

–

Medulla

14 (9.7%)

–

–

–

Multi-sites

31 (21.4%)

–

–

–

  1. SD standard deviation, KPS Karnofsky performance status, tOCN_CT total outlier count of negative deviation in cortical thickness, tOCP_CT total outlier count of positive deviation in cortical thickness.