Current Standards in the Management of Cerebral Metastases

The last 30 years have seen major changes in attitude toward patients with cerebral metastases. This paper aims to outline the major landmarks in this transition and the therapeutic strategies currently used. The controversies surrounding control of brain disease are discussed, and two emerging mana...

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Autores principales: Goetz, Pablo, Ebinu, Julius O., Roberge, David, Zadeh, Gelareh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3263704/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22312540
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/493426
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spelling pubmed-32637042012-02-06 Current Standards in the Management of Cerebral Metastases Goetz, Pablo Ebinu, Julius O. Roberge, David Zadeh, Gelareh Int J Surg Oncol Review Article The last 30 years have seen major changes in attitude toward patients with cerebral metastases. This paper aims to outline the major landmarks in this transition and the therapeutic strategies currently used. The controversies surrounding control of brain disease are discussed, and two emerging management trends are reviewed: tumor bed radiosurgery and salvage radiation. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2011-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3263704/ /pubmed/22312540 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/493426 Text en Copyright © 2012 Pablo Goetz et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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