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Meningitis
New research on meningitis from University of Washington summarized
August 12th, 2008
According to recent research from the United States, "Based on limited literature, an at risk group of patients for development of neoplastic meningitis (NM) are those with resected cerebellar parenchymal metastases. Characterize the incidence of NM in patients with cerebellar metastases treated with either surgical resection or radiotherapy." "A retrospective study to determine outcome and in particular the occurrence of NM in 30 patients with resected cerebellar metastases (Group 1) and in 50 patients with cerebellar metastases treated with radiotherapy only (Group 2). Additionally, 10 patients with coincident cerebellar metastases and NM were identified (Group 3) and...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-08-12)
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