Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Intraventricular Metastases: A Multicenter Study.

Georgios MantziarisStylianos PikisZhiyuan XuReed MullenJuan AlzateKenneth BernsteinDouglas KondziolkaZhishuo WeiAjay NiranjanL Dade LunsfordRoman LiscakJaromir MayCheng-Chia LeeHuai-Che YangFrançois-Louis CoupéDavid MathieuKimball SheehanDarrah SheehanJoshua D PalmerHaley K PerlowSelcuk PekerYavuz SamanciJennifer PetersonDaniel M TrifilettiMatthew J ShepardShahed ElhamdaniRodney E WegnerHerwin SpeckterWenceslao HernandezRonald E WarnickJason Sheehan

Published in: Neurosurgery (2022)

SRS is an effective treatment option for IVMs, with a local IVM control rate comparable with SRS for parenchymal brain metastases. Leptomeningeal spread and hydrocephalus in patients with IVM occur in a minority of patients, but these patients warrant careful follow-up to detect these changes.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
newly diagnosed
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
brain metastases
small cell lung cancer
prognostic factors
peritoneal dialysis
subarachnoid hemorrhage