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Leptomeningeal Metastases

Publication year: 2005

ISBN: 978-0-387-24199-9

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Leptomeningeal Metastases provides the reader with an overview of the state-of-the-art therapy for the leptomeningeal patient with additional information on epidemiology, symptom management, new clinical trials, and current basic research in animal models for experimental therapies. "Leptomeningeal metastases remains a devastating manifestation of hematologic malignancies and solid tumors. Leading figures in the field review the pathophysiology and clinical consequences of this process. State-of-the-art treatment strategies are presented highlighting advances in current management."


Subject: Medicine, Nervous System, anatomy, cancer, carcinoma, central nervous system, clinical trial, imaging, leukemia, lymphoma, metastasis, tumor