Rate of pachymeningeal failure following adjuvant WBRT vs SRS in patients with brain metastases

Rate of pachymeningeal failure following adjuvant WBRT vs SRS in patients with brain metastases

Background: Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) has supplanted whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) as standard-of-care adjuvant treatment following surgery for brain metastasis (BrM). Concomitant with the adoption of adjuvant SRS, a new pattern of failure termed “Pachymeningeal failure” (PMF) has emerged. M...

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Main Authors: Enrique Gutierrez-Valencia, Aristotelis Kalyvas, Kurl Jamora, Kaiyun Yang, Ruth Lau, Benazir Khan, Barbara-Ann Millar, Normand Laperriere, Tatiana Conrad, Alejandro Berlin, Jessica Weiss, Xuan Li, Gelareh Zadeh, Mark Bernstein, Paul Kongkham, David B. Shultz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-03-01
Series:Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology
Subjects:
Pachymeningeal failure
Leptomeningeal disease
Preoperative dural contact
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405630823001489

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