The role of radiation therapy following resection of single brain metastasis from melanoma

Neurology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 158-160

  Hagen, Neil A ^a   Cirrincione, Constance ^a   Thaler, Howard T ^a   DeAngelis, Lisa M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGE; SEIZURES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0025129235     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.40.1.158     Document Type: Article

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