POSTOPERATIVE LIMITED VOLUME IRRADIATION IN A CHILD WITH A SOLITARY BRAIN METASTASIS FROM WILMS-TUMOR - A CASE-REPORT

Authors
KORTMANN RD BUDACH W NIETHAMMER D GROTE EH BAMBERG M
Citation
Rd. Kortmann et al., POSTOPERATIVE LIMITED VOLUME IRRADIATION IN A CHILD WITH A SOLITARY BRAIN METASTASIS FROM WILMS-TUMOR - A CASE-REPORT, Medical and pediatric oncology, 29(3), 1997, pp. 222-223
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Oncology,Pediatrics
Journal title
Medical and pediatric oncology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00981532
Volume
29
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
222 - 223
Database
ISI
SICI code
0098-1532(1997)29:3<222:PLVIIA>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
An 11-year-old boy presented with a solitary cerebral metastasis 2.5 y ears after initial diagnosis and 4 months after successful combined mo dality treatment of a stage II recurrent Wilms tumor in the chest. Res ection of the brain metastasis was followed by limited volume irradiat ion with 30.0 Gy total dose. After a follow-up of 2.5 years the boy is in complete remission and shows no neurological or neuro; psychologic al deficits indicating the possibility of curative postoperative radio therapy of low toxicity and restricted to the tumor site in the presen ce of solitary brain metastases. (C) 1997 Wiley-Liss. Inc.