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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...
Autores principales: | Schödel, Petra, Jünger, Stephanie T., Wittersheim, Maike, Reinhardt, Hans Christian, Schmidt, Nils‐Ole, Goldbrunner, Roland, Proescholdt, Martin, Grau, Stefan |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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John Wiley and Sons Inc.
2020
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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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