Management of Melanoma Brain Metastases in the Era of Targeted Therapy

Disseminated metastatic disease, including brain metastases, is commonly encountered in malignant melanoma. The classical treatment approach for melanoma brain metastases has been neurosurgical resection followed by whole brain radiotherapy. Traditionally, if lesions were either too numerous or surg...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Daniela Gonsalves Shapiro, Wolfram E. Samlowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2011-01-01
Series:Journal of Skin Cancer
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/845863