The records of thirty-four patients with meningeal carcinomatosis treated at our hospital between 1984 and 1990 were reviewed. The sources, histologies, metastatic lesions outside the central nervous system, the history of the treatment of primary lesions and intraparenchymal of metastatic brain tum
Meningeal carcinomatosis in patients with Breast Cancer: Report of 8 patients
β Scribed by Hong Yu; Michihide Mitsumori; Yasushi Nagata; Yukie Katakura; Masaki Kokubo; Natsuo Oya; Satsuki Fujishiro; Keisuke Sasai; Masahiro Hiraoka; Norimichi Kan
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 392 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1340-6868
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