Salvage Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Multiple Brain Recurrences: How Much is Enough?

Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) can be used as a salvage treatment in selected patients with recurrent brain metastases after previous brain radiation. We report the case of a patient with metastatic lung adenocarcinoma who experienced recurrence numerous times in the brain and was successfully trea...

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Autor principal: Hsu, Fred
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Radiation Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5760112/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29333357
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1835
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description Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) can be used as a salvage treatment in selected patients with recurrent brain metastases after previous brain radiation. We report the case of a patient with metastatic lung adenocarcinoma who experienced recurrence numerous times in the brain and was successfully treated each time with SRS. For this patient, brain imaging surveillance helped identify metastases early for salvage SRS. We have also included a discussion of published literature regarding the neurocognitive toxicity of repeated courses of SRS.
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spelling pubmed-57601122018-01-14 Salvage Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Multiple Brain Recurrences: How Much is Enough? Hsu, Fred Cureus Radiation Oncology Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) can be used as a salvage treatment in selected patients with recurrent brain metastases after previous brain radiation. We report the case of a patient with metastatic lung adenocarcinoma who experienced recurrence numerous times in the brain and was successfully treated each time with SRS. For this patient, brain imaging surveillance helped identify metastases early for salvage SRS. We have also included a discussion of published literature regarding the neurocognitive toxicity of repeated courses of SRS. Cureus 2017-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5760112/ /pubmed/29333357 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1835 Text en Copyright © 2017, Hsu et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Radiation Oncology
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Salvage Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Multiple Brain Recurrences: How Much is Enough?
title Salvage Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Multiple Brain Recurrences: How Much is Enough?
title_full Salvage Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Multiple Brain Recurrences: How Much is Enough?
title_fullStr Salvage Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Multiple Brain Recurrences: How Much is Enough?
title_full_unstemmed Salvage Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Multiple Brain Recurrences: How Much is Enough?
title_short Salvage Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Multiple Brain Recurrences: How Much is Enough?
title_sort salvage stereotactic radiosurgery for multiple brain recurrences: how much is enough?
topic Radiation Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5760112/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29333357
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1835
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