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NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 44, Issue 9, Pages 3271-3277Publisher
SPRINGER-VERLAG ITALIA SRL
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-023-06806-9
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Diffuse glioma; Dementia; Liquid biopsy; MRI; CSF
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In this study, liquid biopsy diagnostic method successfully detected somatic mutations associated with gliomas in the patient's cerebrospinal fluid, providing therapeutically targetable mutations. This method can assist in the differential diagnosis of neurological diseases when imaging is not informative enough and surgical biopsy is not feasible.
IntroductionThe differential diagnosis of brain diseases becomes challenging in cases where imaging is not sufficiently informative, and surgical biopsy is impossible or unacceptable to the patient.MethodsAn elderly patient with progressive short-term memory loss and cognitive impairment presented with a normal brain CT scan, a brain FDG-PET that indicated symmetrical deterioration of the white matter in the frontal lobes, and inconclusive results of a molecular marker analysis of suspected dementia in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Brain MRI suggested the diagnosis of lower grade glioma. The patient refused surgical biopsy. In order to investigate whether somatic mutations associated with gliomas existed, we performed a liquid biopsy by the targeted sequencing of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) from his CSF.ResultsDeep sequencing of the cfDNA from CSF revealed somatic mutations characteristically found in gliomas, including mutations of the TP53 (Arg282Trp), BRAF (Val600Glu), and IDH1 (Arg132His) genes. The patient is currently treated with temozolomide, and his clinical and MRI findings suggest the stabilization of his disease.ConclusionNeurological patients may benefit from liquid biopsy diagnostic work-up as it can reveal therapeutically targetable mutations.
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