Does the application of diffusion weighted imaging improve the prediction of survival in patients with resected brain metastases? A retrospective multicenter study.
Rasheed ZakariaYin Jie ChenDavid M HughesSumei WangSanjeev ChawlaHarish PoptaniAnna S BerghoffMatthias PreusserMichael D JenkinsonSuyash MohanPublished in: Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society (2020)
Combining advanced MRI readings such as tumor ADC with clinical scoring systems is a potentially simple method for improving and individualising the estimation of survival in patients having surgery for brain metastases.
Keyphrases
- brain metastases
- diffusion weighted imaging
- small cell lung cancer
- contrast enhanced
- magnetic resonance imaging
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- prognostic factors
- chronic kidney disease
- minimally invasive
- diffusion weighted
- coronary artery bypass
- magnetic resonance
- computed tomography
- percutaneous coronary intervention