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Impact of radiotherapy in atypical meningioma recurrence: literature review
- Source :
- Neurosurgical Review. 42:631-637
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018.
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Abstract
- Evaluate whether radiotherapy (RT) after the neurosurgical treatment of atypical meningiomas (AM) has an impact on the reduction rate of recurrence. A Medline search through October 2017 using “atypical meningioma” returned 1277 papers for initial review. Inclusion criteria were as follows. We analyzed the database and included articles in which the anatomic pathological classification of atypical meningiomas was in accordance with WHO 2007 or WHO 2016 criteria, patients > 18 years of age, and there was postoperative external beam radiation to the tumor bed. Exclusion criteria were WHO grade I or III meningioma, patients who underwent whole-brain radiation, RT used as salvage therapy for recurrence, palliative dose of RT (
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
MEDLINE
Salvage therapy
Neurosurgical Procedures
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
Meningioma
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Humans
Medicine
Pathological
Salvage Therapy
Brain Neoplasms
business.industry
Atypical meningioma
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Combined Modality Therapy
Neurosurgical Procedure
Radiation therapy
Surgery
Neurology (clinical)
Neurosurgery
Radiology
Neoplasm Recurrence, Local
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Details
- ISSN :
- 14372320 and 03445607
- Volume :
- 42
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Neurosurgical Review
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....21b6caf3cbc0a15ab178feaa2141a055