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Cerebrospinal fluid dissemination of high-grade gliomas following boron neutron capture therapy occurs more frequently in the small cell subtype of IDH1R132H mutation-negative glioblastoma.
Journal of neuro-oncology - 1 May 2017
Kondo Natsuko, Barth Rolf F, Miyatake Shin-Ichi, Kawabata Shinji, Suzuki Minoru, Ono Koji, Lehman Norman L
Abstract excerpt
We have used boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) to treat patients in Japan with newly diagnosed or recurrent high-grade gliomas and have observed a significant increase in median survival time following BNCT. Although cerebrospinal fluid dissemination (CSFD) is not usually seen with the current standard therapy of patients with glioblastoma (GBM), here we report that subarachnoid or intraventricular CSFD was...
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