Long-Term Survival of a Patient with Brainstem and Recurrent Brain Metastasis from Stage IV Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Multiple Gamma Knife Radiosurgeries and Craniotomies: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

The prognosis of patients diagnosed with stage IV nonsmall cell lung cancer that have brain and brainstem metastasis is very poor, with less than a third surviving a year past their initial date of diagnosis. We present the rare case of a 57-year-old man who is a long-term survivor of brainstem and...

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Autores principales: Lamm, Andrew F., Elaimy, Ameer L., Mackay, Alexander R., Fairbanks, Robert K., Demakas, John J., Cooke, Barton S., Lee, Christopher M., Taylor, Blake S., Lamoreaux, Wayne T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3465873/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23056973
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/621641

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3465873/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23056973
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/621641

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