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... METASTATIC BRAIN TUMORS 601 CHAPTER 28 Metastatic brain tumors Lisa M. DeAngelis, MD, Jay S. Loeffler, MD, and Adam N. Mamelak, MD Brain metastases occur in ~15% of ... of patients with brain metastases. Patients with brain metastases from nonpulmonary primaries have a 70% incidence of lung metastases. Although many physicians presume that all brain metastases are ... of brai...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2014, 11:10

... 8(6):461-466 Research Paper Patient Specification Quality Assurance for Glioblastoma Multiforme Brain Tumors Treated with Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy H. I. Al-Mohammed  King Faisal ... white matter of the cerebral hemisphere in adults. It ac- counts for 12%-15% of all primary brain tumors [1]. The treatment of GBM involves surgical resection, which is the first th...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:51

... the following problems: • Swelling of the brain: Many people with brain tumors need steroids to help relieve swelling of the brain. • Seizures: Brain tumors can cause seizures (convulsions). ... increased risk of a brain tumor, such as meningioma or glioma. • Family history: It is rare for brain tumors to run in a family. Only a very small number of families have several mem...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 21:20

... all cases. Interestingly, primary brain tumors have a strong tendency to invade their environment, but with rare exceptions, do not metastasize outside the brain. [1-3]. To understand the invasion ... the normal brain volume. The extracellular space (ECS) of the healthy brain tissue volume is approxi‐ matley 20%. The extracellular volume fraction in the majority of primary brain t...

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Ngày tải lên: 20/08/2012, 12:31

... hard to identify the 'special' words.  Brainstorm some more words for each category. Type A Type B © Brain friendly Publications - www.brainfriendly.co.uk 1 Activating Vocabulary Houses ... THINGS ON THE T ABLE Brain Friendly Publications ™ Mark Fletcher A C T I V A T I N G V O C A B U L A R Y THROUGH PICTURES FOR ESOL LEARNERS © Brain friendly Publications - www.brainfriendl...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 08:20

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Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 08:20

... traumatic brain injury, part 1: Guidelines for the management of severe traumatic brain injury. J Neurotrauma 2000;17:451-533. 11 Piek J. Decompressive surgery in the treatment of traumatic brain ... refractory in- tracranial hypertension after TBI. 2-8 Presently, th e European Brain Injury Consortium and Brain Trauma Foundation guidelines for severe TBIs refers t o de- compres...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40

... decapitation. The brains were quickly removed and the different re- gions (CC, CB and BS) were separated according to the procedure described by Sadasivudu and Lajtha (22). Each of the brain regions ... decreased when com- pared to anoxia in all the brain regions tested. The pattern observed for the increase in concentration of NOx in the three different brain regions was similar t...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:07

... was started on meropenem. The initial CT scan of the brain done on arrival to Mount Sinai was negative. However, follow-up CT of the brain seven days later showed a 2.7 cm abscess located ... etiologic agents [2]. Since 1981, a distinct clinical syndrome of septicemia with liver abscess and metastatic infections due to K. pneumoniae has emerged, with a predominance of cases in Taiwa...

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