Dystonia in a Patient with Melanoma Metastatic to the Brain Treated with High-Dose Interleukin-2, Radiation Therapy, and Levetiracetam

Dystonia has been described as a potential toxicity of radiation therapy. Management of this rare movement disorder is targeted in symptom improvement. We report a case of a 46-year-old female patient who developed dystonia during treatment of melanoma metastatic to the brain and discuss potential c...

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Autores principales: Sreenivasan, Varun, Dudek, Arkadiusz Z.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2013
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Published online: January, 2013
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3573788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23467479
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000346932
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description Dystonia has been described as a potential toxicity of radiation therapy. Management of this rare movement disorder is targeted in symptom improvement. We report a case of a 46-year-old female patient who developed dystonia during treatment of melanoma metastatic to the brain and discuss potential causes of and therapies for this rare complication.
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spelling pubmed-35737882013-03-05 Dystonia in a Patient with Melanoma Metastatic to the Brain Treated with High-Dose Interleukin-2, Radiation Therapy, and Levetiracetam Sreenivasan, Varun Dudek, Arkadiusz Z. Case Rep Oncol Published online: January, 2013 Dystonia has been described as a potential toxicity of radiation therapy. Management of this rare movement disorder is targeted in symptom improvement. We report a case of a 46-year-old female patient who developed dystonia during treatment of melanoma metastatic to the brain and discuss potential causes of and therapies for this rare complication. S. Karger AG 2013-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3573788/ /pubmed/23467479 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000346932 Text en Copyright © 2013 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published online: January, 2013
Sreenivasan, Varun
Dudek, Arkadiusz Z.
Dystonia in a Patient with Melanoma Metastatic to the Brain Treated with High-Dose Interleukin-2, Radiation Therapy, and Levetiracetam
title Dystonia in a Patient with Melanoma Metastatic to the Brain Treated with High-Dose Interleukin-2, Radiation Therapy, and Levetiracetam
title_full Dystonia in a Patient with Melanoma Metastatic to the Brain Treated with High-Dose Interleukin-2, Radiation Therapy, and Levetiracetam
title_fullStr Dystonia in a Patient with Melanoma Metastatic to the Brain Treated with High-Dose Interleukin-2, Radiation Therapy, and Levetiracetam
title_full_unstemmed Dystonia in a Patient with Melanoma Metastatic to the Brain Treated with High-Dose Interleukin-2, Radiation Therapy, and Levetiracetam
title_short Dystonia in a Patient with Melanoma Metastatic to the Brain Treated with High-Dose Interleukin-2, Radiation Therapy, and Levetiracetam
title_sort dystonia in a patient with melanoma metastatic to the brain treated with high-dose interleukin-2, radiation therapy, and levetiracetam
topic Published online: January, 2013
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3573788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23467479
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000346932
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