The Comparative Treatment of Intraventricular Chemotherapy by Ommaya Reservoir vs. Lumbar Puncture in Patients With Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis

The Comparative Treatment of Intraventricular Chemotherapy by Ommaya Reservoir vs. Lumbar Puncture in Patients With Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis

Object: Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis (LCM) represents a state of systemic malignant disease with poor prognosis. The purpose of this study is to compare overall survival (OS) between intraventricular chemotherapy through Ommaya reservoir (OR) and chemotherapy through lumbar puncture (LP) in LCM.Pat...

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Main Authors: Mariano Montes de Oca Delgado, Bernardo Cacho Díaz, José Santos Zambrano, Vicente Guerrero Juárez, Manuel Salvador López Martínez, Elvira Castro Martínez, Javier Avendaño Méndez-Padilla, Sonia Mejía Pérez, Ignacio Reyes Moreno, Axayacatl Gutiérrez Aceves, Alberto González Aguilar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
Subjects:
leptomeningeal carcinomatosis
overall survival
chemotherapy
ommaya reservoir
lumbar puncture
karnofsky performance status
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fonc.2018.00509/full

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