Surgical Indication Optimization of Brain Metastases Based on the Evolutionary Analysis of Karnofsky Performance Status.

Jorge RasmussenPablo AjlerDaniela MassaPedro PlouMatteo BaccanelliClaudio Yampolsky

Published in: Journal of neurological surgery. Part A, Central European neurosurgery (2021)

The preoperative determination of the functional status by KPS as an evolutive parameter after the nononcologic symptomatic pharmacological treatment allowed us to optimize the surgical indication of patients with symptomatic BM.

Keyphrases

brain metastases
small cell lung cancer
patients undergoing
genome wide
solid phase extraction
high resolution
smoking cessation