دورية أكاديمية
Management of brain metastasis in a patient with advanced epithelial ovarian carcinoma by gamma-knife radiosurgery
| العنوان: | Management of brain metastasis in a patient with advanced epithelial ovarian carcinoma by gamma-knife radiosurgery |
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| المؤلفون: | Nikolaou Marinos, Stamenković Srđan, Stergiou Christos, Skarleas Christos, Torrens Michael |
| المصدر: | Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, Vol 143, Iss 3-4, Pp 205-209 (2015) |
| بيانات النشر: | Serbian Medical Society, 2015. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | gamma-knife stereotactic radiosurgery, solitary brain metastasis, ovarian carcinoma, Medicine |
| الوصف: | Introduction. Brain metastases from epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) are rare events. We present a rare case of single ovarian cancer metastasis to the brain treated with gamma-knife radiosurgery (GKRS). Case Outline. A 65-year-old woman with advanced EOC presented with severe neurologic symptoms. A single brain metastasis of 3.2 cm with surrounding edema in the left parietal lobe was detected by brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan during the work-up. The decision to perform GKRS was due to a surgical inaccessibility of intracranial lesion. Twelve weeks after the procedure, the MRI scan showed reduction in the diameter of brain metastasis and surrounding edema and the patient returned to good mental and motor performance. The patient survived for 22 months following treatment and died from a progressive intra-abdominal disease. Prognosis of ovarian cancer patients with brain metastases is generally poor regardless of treatment. Conclusion. Our case shows that GKRS as primary treatment modality for the control of ovarian cancer metastases to the brain was effective and can be considered as a treatment of choice if international selection criteria are followed. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English Serbian |
| تدمد: | 0370-8179 |
| العلاقة: | https://doaj.org/toc/0370-8179Test |
| DOI: | 10.2298/SARH1504205N |
| الوصول الحر: | https://doaj.org/article/dbaa3ec1f0ae4948b2eb932201926697Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.baa3ec1f0ae4948b2eb932201926697 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| تدمد: | 03708179 |
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| DOI: | 10.2298/SARH1504205N |