Solitary cerebral metastasis from melanoma: Value of the 'en bloc' resection

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 12-14

  Salvati, Maurizio ^a   Cervoni, Luigi ^a,b   Caruso, Riccardo ^a   Gagliardi, Franco Maria ^a  

^a IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain; Melanoma; Single metastasis; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOMA; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; SEIZURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0030028926     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0303-8467(95)00077-1     Document Type: Article

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