Clinical outcomes of 174 nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients with radiation-induced temporal lobe necrosis

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Lam, Tai Chung ^a   Wong, Frank C S ^a   Leung, To Wai ^b   Ng, S H ^a   Tung, Stewart Y ^a  

^a TUEN MUN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Neurosurgery; Pulsed steroid; Radiotherapy; Temporal lobe necrosis

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOMATIC PATIENTS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CLINICAL RESPONSE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENTS; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; NASOPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; OVERALL SURVIVAL RATES; PULSED STEROID; RADIATION-INDUCED; REIRRADIATION; RELATIVE RISKS; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; STEROID THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPORAL LOBES; TREATMENT GROUP;

LIPIDS; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

DEXAMETHASONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ARTICLE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN NECROSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NEUROSURGERY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION NECROSIS; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SEPSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE NECROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NECROSIS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PROGNOSIS; RETREATMENT; RISK; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 83955161772     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.11.070     Document Type: Article

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