Intracranial metastases: therapeutic options

Intracranial metastases: therapeutic options.

Metastatic spread of tumour cells detached from systemic tumours into the central nervous system occurs hematogenously since lymphatic drainage is absent in the brain. Little is known about the precise mechanisms of tumour cell attachment in the brain and local progression of micrometastasis into clinically symptomatic tumours or into lesions visible on modern imaging techniques, such as magnet...

Current therapeutic options for colorectal liver metastases.

Remote metastases from intracranial tumours.

A review of the primary tumours of the nervous system encountered over the past 16 years from the population of the west of Scotland uncovered only three tumours in which remote extracranial metastases had developed. In all three, there had been surgical intervention before the appearance of metastases. The findings in these patients are compared with those in other published accounts of this u...

Vertebral metastases from intracranial meningioma

Meningioma rarely gives rise to metastases outside the brain and meninges. We report here a case of a patient who was treated for anaplastic brain meningioma with surgery and fractionated radiation therapy without any recurrence until 5 years after the operation, when she developed vertebral metastases.

Intracranial hemorrhage in patients with brain metastases treated with therapeutic enoxaparin: a matched cohort study.

Venous thromboembolism occurs frequently in patients with cancer who have brain metastases, but there is limited evidence supporting the safety of therapeutic anticoagulation. To assess the risk for intracranial hemorrhage associated with the administration of therapeutic doses of low-molecular-weight heparin, we performed a matched, retrospective cohort study of 293 patients with cancer with b...