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Neoplastic leptomeningitis presenting in a melanoma patient treated with dabrafenib (a (V600E)BRAF inhibitor): a case report

INTRODUCTION: Leptomeningeal metastases are occurring at higher frequency in cancer patients. The prognosis of leptomeningeal metastases is poor and standard treatment, which includes radiotherapy and chemotherapy, is mostly ineffective. Melanoma represents one of the tumors with the highest inciden...

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Autores principales: Simeone, Ester, De Maio, Eleonora, Sandomenico, Fabio, Fulciniti, Franco, Lastoria, Secondo, Aprea, Pasquale, Staibano, Stefania, Montesarchio, Vincenzo, Palmieri, Giuseppe, Mozzillo, Nicola, Ascierto, Paolo A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3423050/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22594466
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-6-131