The Clinical, Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Prognostic Characteristics of Brain Metastases in Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review

Table 1

The demographic information of all included studies reporting BMs in PCa.

Author	Year of publication	Type of studies	Total sample size	Quality assessment (good, fair, or poor)	Reference
Sena et al.	2021	Case report	1	Good	[36]
Pikis et al.	2021	Case series	46	Good	[37]
Parihar et al.	2021	Case report	1	Good	[38]
Hung et al.	2021	Retrospective study	204	Good	[39]
Boxley et al.	2021	Retrospective study	29	Fair	[40]
Son et al.	2020	Case report	1	Fair	[30]
Shida et al.	2020	Case report	3	Good	[29]
Saadatpour et al.	2020	Case report	1	Fair	[41]
Ross et al.	2020	Case report	1	Good	[28]
Nguyen et al.	2020	Retrospective cohort	21	Fair	[42]
Marchand Crety et al.	2020	Case report	1	Good	[27]
Liu et al.	2020	Case report	1	Good	[26]
Janda et al.	2020	Case report	1	Good	[24]
Bhambhvani et al.	2020	Retrospective cohort	31	Good	[13]
Aljarba et al.	2020	Case report	1	Good	[32]
Ahmad et al.	2020	Case report	1	Good	[43]
Kosaka et al.	2019	Case report	1	Fair	[23]
Kanyilmaz et al.	2019	Retrospective cohort	339	Good	[44]
Ishizaki et al.	2019	Case report	1	Good	[22]
Hogan et al.	2019	Case report	1	Good	[45]
Zanatta et al.	2018	Case report	1	Good	[46]
Reinas et al.	2018	Case report	1	Fair	[47]
Nunno et al.	2018	Case report	1	Fair	[48]
Jack et al.	2018	Case report	1	Good	[49]
Campagna et al.	2018	Case report	1	Fair	[21]
Watanabe et al.	2017	Case report	1	Good	[20]
Lam et al.	2017	Case report	2	Fair	[19]
Chang et al.	2017	Case report	1	Good	[18]
Guraya et al.	2016	Case report	1	Good	[50]
Barakat et al.	2016	Case report	1	Good	[17]
Mandaliya et al.	2015	Case report	2	Good	[51]
Hutton et al.	2015	Case report	1	Fair	[16]
Gajewska et al.	2015	Case report	1	Fair	[15]
Craig et al.	2015	Case report	1	Good	[14]
Hatzoglou et al.	2014	Retrospective cohort	21	Good	[10]
Placido et al.	2014	Case report	3	Fair	[52]
Hazell et al.	2013	Case report	4	Good	[53]
Caffo et al.	2013	Cohort	9	Fair	[54]
Caffo et al.	2012	Case series	22	Good	[55]
Flannery et al.	2010	Case series	10	Good	[56]
Yamada et al.	2009	Case report	1	Good	[57]
Sweets et al.	2009	Case report	1	Good	[58]
Kim et al.	2008	Case series	5	Good	[59]
Grenader et al.	2007	Case report	1	Good	[60]
Lyons et al.	2006	Case report	1	Good	[61]
Wullich et al.	2004	Case report	2	Fair	[62]
Schoenwaelder et al.	2004	Case report	1	Good	[63]
Tremont-Lukats et al.	2003	Case series	103	Good	[9]
Erasmus et al.	2002	Case report	1	Good	[64]
Minami, H.	2001	Case report	1	Fair	[65]
Behrens et al.	2001	Case report	1	Good	[66]
Garcia-Morales et al.	2000	Case report	1	Good	[67]
Fervenza et al.	2000	Case report	1	Good	[68]
Hayashi et al.	1998	Case report	1	Fair	[69]
Zhang et al.	1997	Case report	1	Fair	[70]
Leibman et al.	1995	Case report	2	Good	[71]
Bland et al.	1992	Case report	1	Good	[72]
Lynes et al.	1986	Case report	2	Good	[73]
Sarma et al.	1983	Case report	4	Fair	[74]