Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis from renal cell cancer: Treatment attempt with radiation and sunitinib (case report)

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Dalhaug, Astrid ^a   Haukland, Ellinor ^a   Nieder, Carsten ^a,b  

^a NORDLAND HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; SUNITINIB; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE PAIN; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARCINOMATOUS MENINGITIS; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIZZINESS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FATALITY; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PNEUMONIA; SPINE METASTASIS; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT FAILURE; BRAIN TUMOR; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; INDOLES; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL CARCINOMATOSIS; PYRROLES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77951863905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-8-36     Document Type: Article

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