A CASE OF EFFECTIVE COMBINATION TREATMENT FOR INTRACEREBRAL METASTASES FROM OVARIAN CANCER


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Abstract

The described clinical case demonstrates the efficiency of combination treatment for intracerebral metastases, which involves surgical removal of metastasis with intraoperative fluorescence diagnosis and photodynamic therapy for the bed of a removed tumor, followed by brain radiation. The patient has been alive for 17 months since intracerebral metastases were detected.

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I. V. Reshetov

P. A. Herzen Moscow Oncology Research Institute, Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia

A. M. Zaitsev

P. A. Herzen Moscow Oncology Research Institute, Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia

Email: mnioi@mail.ru
канд. мед. наук, рук. группы нейроонкологии

E. V. Filonenko

P. A. Herzen Moscow Oncology Research Institute, Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia

M. I. Kurzhupov

N. N. Burdenko Neurosurgery Research Institute

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