Treatment and prognosis of brain metastases from gynecological cancers

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 57-62

  Ogawa, Kazuhiko ^a   Yoshii, Yoshihiko ^a   Aoki, Yoichi ^a   Nagai, Yutaka ^a   Tsuchida, Yukihiro ^a   Toita, Takafumi ^a   Kakinohana, Yasumasa ^a   Tamaki, Wakana ^a   Iraha, Shiro ^a   Adachi, Genki ^a   Hirakawa, Makoto ^a   Kamiyama, Kazuya ^a   Inamine, Morihiko ^a   Hyodo, Akio ^a   Murayama, Sadayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain metastasis; Endometrial cancer; Gynecological neoplasm; Ovarian cancer; Radiation therapy; Uterine cervical cancer

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN SURGERY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 40849096075     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.48.57     Document Type: Article

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