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Emergency surgical decompression and long-term survival of glioblastoma presenting in coma in old age: case report and review of prognostic factors

We present a case demonstrating that older age does not exclude long-term survival with glioblastoma. This is a malignant neoplasm with a median life expectancy of 14 months in patients treated with radical intent. Survival is dependent on several independent and interacting prognostic factors of wh...

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Autores principales: McKinley, Aidan, Lammy, Simon, James, Allan, Stan, Alexandru, Barrett, Chris
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9318890/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35903619
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omac074