Treatment of steroid refractory, Gamma Knife related radiation necrosis with bevacizumab: Case report and review of the literature

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 798-802

  Sanborn, Matthew R ^a   Danish, Shabbar F ^b   Rosenfeld, Myrna R ^c   O'Rourke, Donald ^a   Lee, John Y K ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bevacizumab; Gamma Knife radiosurgery; Meningioma; Radiation necrosis

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; DEXAMETHASONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BABINSKI REFLEX; CANCER GRADING; CASE REPORT; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE COURSE; DIZZINESS; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FALLING; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA; HIP; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; KNEE; MALE; MALIGNANT NEURILEMOMA; MENINGIOMA; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PARIETAL LOBE; PONTINE GLIOMA; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION NECROSIS; SEIZURE; SPASTICITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STEROID THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; URINE INCONTINENCE; WEAKNESS;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; BRAIN; DRUG RESISTANCE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOSURGERY; STEROIDS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 80053568715     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: 18726968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2011.08.007     Document Type: Article

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