The impact of authors' medical specialty on publication patterns and published results of adjuvant radiotherapy for WHO grade 2 meningiomas-a systematic review.

In this systematic review of the literature, we found that if a radiation-oncologist was the last author of the study, the study was more likely to favor adjuvant radiotherapy after gross total resection of WHO grade 2 meningioma. Clinicians and researchers should be aware of a possible genealogy bias in the neuro-oncological literature.