Pre- and Post-Treatment Imaging of Primary Central Nervous System Tumors in the Molecular and Genetic Era.
Recent advances in the molecular and genetic characterization of central nervous system (CNS) tumors have ushered in a new era of tumor classification, diagnosis, and prognostic assessment. In this emerging and rapidly evolving molecular genetic era, imaging plays a critical role in the preoperative diagnosis and surgical planning, molecular marker prediction, targeted treatment planning, and post-therapy assessment of CNS tumors. This review provides an overview of the current imaging methods relevant to the molecular genetic classification of CNS tumors. Specifically, we focused on 1) the correlates between imaging features and specific molecular genetic markers and 2) the post-therapy imaging used for therapeutic assessment.
['Ahn|Sung Soo|SS|0000-0002-0503-5558', 'Cha|Soonmee|S|0000-0002-5924-5876']
D016543:Central Nervous System Neoplasms D006801:Humans D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography D011379:Prognosis
Molecular marker CNS tumor Magnetic resonance imaging Positron emission tomography