Incidence of leukoencephalopathy after whole-brain radiation therapy for brain metastases

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1212-1217

  Ebi, Junko ^a   Sato, Hisashi ^a   Nakajima, Masaru ^a   Shishido, Fumio ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS; COMMON TERMINOLOGY CRITERIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI); METHODS AND MATERIALS; WHOLE-BRAIN RADIATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOTHERAPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BRAIN;

AMRUBICIN; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; EPIRUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; GEFITINIB; GEMCITABINE; GIMERACIL; HORMONE DERIVATIVE; IRINOTECAN; METHOTREXATE; MITOMYCIN; NAVELBINE; OTERACIL POTASSIUM; TEGAFUR; TRASTUZUMAB;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; COMMON TERMINOLOGY CRITERIA FOR ADVERSE EVENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DEMENTIA; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAIT DISORDER; GENDER; HUMAN; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; STEROID THERAPY; URGE INCONTINENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875248770     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.09.025     Document Type: Article

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