Surgical resection of symptomatic brain metastases improves the clinical status and facilitates further treatment

BACKGROUND: Brain metastases (BM) frequently cause focal neurological deficits leading to a reduced Karnofsky performance score (KPS). Since KPS is routinely used to guide the choice of adjuvant therapy, we hypothesized that improving KPS by surgical resection may improve the chance for adjuvant tre...

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Autores principales: Schödel, Petra, Jünger, Stephanie T., Wittersheim, Maike, Reinhardt, Hans Christian, Schmidt, Nils‐Ole, Goldbrunner, Roland, Proescholdt, Martin, Grau, Stefan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
Materias:
Clinical Cancer Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7571801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32858763
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cam4.3402

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7571801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32858763
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cam4.3402

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