Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Carcinoid Brain Metastasis: A Case Report

Carcinoid brain metastases are extremely rare and are associated with a poor prognosis. Treatment options are variable, ranging from surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy alone or combined. We report on a case of rectal carcinoid metastatic to the cerebellum and review chemotherapeutic regimens for ca...

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Autores principales: Cao, Felicia, Sada, David M, Lai, Syeling, Sada, Yvonne H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
Materias:
Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6816534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31667042
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5509
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author Cao, Felicia
Sada, David M
Lai, Syeling
Sada, Yvonne H
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description Carcinoid brain metastases are extremely rare and are associated with a poor prognosis. Treatment options are variable, ranging from surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy alone or combined. We report on a case of rectal carcinoid metastatic to the cerebellum and review chemotherapeutic regimens for carcinoid tumor treatment, focusing on the potential role of temozolomide or stereotactic radiosurgery.
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spelling pubmed-68165342019-10-30 Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Carcinoid Brain Metastasis: A Case Report Cao, Felicia Sada, David M Lai, Syeling Sada, Yvonne H Cureus Oncology Carcinoid brain metastases are extremely rare and are associated with a poor prognosis. Treatment options are variable, ranging from surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy alone or combined. We report on a case of rectal carcinoid metastatic to the cerebellum and review chemotherapeutic regimens for carcinoid tumor treatment, focusing on the potential role of temozolomide or stereotactic radiosurgery. Cureus 2019-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6816534/ /pubmed/31667042 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5509 Text en Copyright © 2019, Cao 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 Oncology
Cao, Felicia
Sada, David M
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Sada, Yvonne H
Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Carcinoid Brain Metastasis: A Case Report
title Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Carcinoid Brain Metastasis: A Case Report
title_full Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Carcinoid Brain Metastasis: A Case Report
title_fullStr Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Carcinoid Brain Metastasis: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Carcinoid Brain Metastasis: A Case Report
title_short Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Carcinoid Brain Metastasis: A Case Report
title_sort stereotactic radiosurgery for carcinoid brain metastasis: a case report
topic Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6816534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31667042
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5509
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