Leptomeningeal metastases from small cell lung carcinoma: Frequencies and survival

Cancer

Volumn 104, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1700-1705

  Seute, Tatjana ^a   Leffers, Pieter ^a   Ten Velde, Guul P M ^a   Twijnstra, Albert ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Leptomeningeal metastases; Neurologic complications; Small cell lung carcinoma

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LEPTOMENINGEAL METASTASIS; LEPTOMENINX; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 26444591868     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21322     Document Type: Article

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