Multidisciplinary Management of Metastatic Brain Tumors
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Metastatic Brain Tumors
The past two decades have seen a large increase in treatment options, resulting in longer life expectancy and better quality of life to a point where metastatic lesions are no longer the ma‐ jor cause of mortality in this patient group. This has made decision making on treatment mo‐ dality more complex. Evidence for local aggressive control through surgery and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) [3...
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عنوان ژورنال: Japanese Journal of Neurosurgery
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0917-950X,2187-3100
DOI: 10.7887/jcns.27.539