How do you manage adult brainstem lesions in the absence of a tissue diagnosis?

For a lesion that appears radiographically consistent with a high grade glioma, would you treat empirically if there is hesitancy to perform a high risk biopsy?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Louisville School of Medicine

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I would:

Discuss with the neuro-radiologist and obtain another imaging study(e.g. PET or MR perfusion) that could support the MRI diagnosis of high grade glioma.
Have a thorough discussion at a multi-disciplinary neuro-oncology tumor board to make sure surgical biopsy is unsafe and there is consens...

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