Results of excision of cerebral radionecrosis: Experience in patients treated with radiation therapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 293-300

  Wong, Sui To ^a   Loo, Ka Tai ^a   Yam, Kwong Yui ^a   Hung, Wai Man ^a   Fok, Kam Fuk ^a   Yuen, Shing Chau ^a   Fong, Dawson ^a  

^a TUEN MUN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cerebral radionecrosis; Craniotomy; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NECROSIS; CHEST INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVULSION; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE COURSE; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION NECROSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH CARCINOMA; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NECROSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77955636470     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.1.JNS091039     Document Type: Article

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