Deborah T Blumenthal

..Familiality in brain tumors is not definitively substantiated...

..Therefore, the aim of the current article was to describe the outcome of women with malignant gliomas who were exposed to chemotherapy early in the gestation period of their pregnancies...

..Direct and indirect effects of the primary neoplasm need to be considered in the etiology of specific syndromes of mononeuropathies and plexopathies...

..Thus, enrollment in a clinical study carried a significant survival advantage for patients with glioblastoma, raising practical and ethical issues regarding the quality of care of patients who receive "standard" therapy...

..This study aimed to develop a multi-modal MRI automatic classification method to improve accuracy and efficiency of treatment response assessment in patients with recurrent glioblastoma (GB)...

..Reference values from healthy subjects are presented and preliminary results demonstrate the potential of this method to complement perfusion imaging for the detection and follow up of angiogenesis in patients with brain tumors...

..The objective of this study was to evaluate response rates and tolerability of chemotherapy with bevacizumab and irinotecan in recurrent high-grade gliomas...

..We hypothesized that by using the temporal bone as the radiation field margin, toxicity could be reduced without compromising tumor control...

..In this review the respective roles of surgery and radiosurgery, patient selection, general prognostic factors and tailoring of optimal surgical management strategies for cerebral metastases are discussed...