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How do you interpret CSF pleocytosis in the context of significant leukocytosis on CBC?

For example, a patient with 100 WBCs in CSF with a peripheral WBC 43k/mm3 due to AML.

What is the expected timeframe for the development of radiation myelitis and therapies that have helped with neurologic symptoms?

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How do you manage incidentally identified pituitary lesions on brain imaging?

What workup do you typically recommend?

1 Answer available

Why do we use dexamethasone for CNS edema and prednisone for pneumonitis?

Is this an artifact of what agent prior clinical trials used or something to do with the mechanism of action (i.e., less mineralocorticoid effect of d...

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How do you approach the workup of a patient with incidentally found pachymeningitis?

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For patients with a history of seizures secondary to brain metastases, what are your criteria for discontinuing antiepileptic medications if the seizures have been controlled since SRS or surgery?

1 Answer available

For patients with brain tumors without a history of seizure, what is your policy on driving?

1 Answer available

How are patients on anticoagulation managed in the context of intracranial SRS?

Is heparin or warfarin routinely held prior to treatment?

1 Answer available

Papers discussed in this category

Journal of neuro-oncology, 2011-07

Current practices of driving restriction implementation for patients with brain tumors.

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2006 Dec 1

Update of human spinal cord reirradiation tolerance based on additional data from 38 patients.

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2019 Oct 10

Spinal Cord Dose Tolerance to Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy.

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al], 2021 May 05

New clinical data on human spinal cord re-irradiation tolerance.

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2013-03-01

Randomized trial of pentoxifylline and vitamin E vs standard follow-up after breast irradiation to prevent breast fibrosis, evaluated by tissue compliance meter.

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2020 Jan 24

Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial Combining Pentoxifylline-Tocopherol and Clodronate in the Treatment of Radiation-Induced Plexopathy.

Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, 2001 Mar

Double-blind randomized phase II study of hyperbaric oxygen in patients with radiation-induced brachial plexopathy.

Cancer research and treatment, 2006 Dec 31

The effect of pentoxifylline on radiobiological parameters in the rat radiation myelopathy.

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