ArticleBrain sciences2021
Brain Metastases in Elderly Patients-The Role of Surgery in the Context of Systemic Treatment.
Article in Brain sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- [Patients with brain metastases : The role of neurosurgery].Chirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Prognostic Factors Impacting Surgical Resection Outcomes in Elderly Patients With Brain Metastasis.The Kaohsiung journal of medical sciences · 2026Article
- Clinicopathological characteristics and prognostic model validation for mucinous gastric carcinoma.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Complete resection of brain metastases - when does it matter?Journal of neuro-oncology · 2025Article
- The Role of Repeated Surgical Resections for Recurrent Brain Metastases in Older Population.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
- Defining the role of surgery for patients with multiple brain metastases.Journal of neuro-oncology · 2024Article
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- Opportunities and Alternatives of Modern Radiation Oncology and Surgery for the Management of Resectable Brain Metastases.Cancers · 2023Review
- Surgical treatment of cerebellar metastases in elderly patients: A threshold that moves forward?World neurosurgery: X · 2023Article
- Neurosurgical Interventions for Cerebral Metastases of Solid Tumors.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2023Review
- Brain metastases in the elderly - Impact of residual tumor volume on overall survival.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Article
- Surgical Treatment of Cerebellar Metastases: Survival Benefits, Complications and Timing Issues.Cancers · 2021Article
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- Brain metastasis screening in the molecular age.Neuro-oncology advancesReview
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Abstract
In patients with brain metastases (BM), advanced age is considered a negative prognostic factor. To address the potential reasons for that, we assessed 807 patients who had undergone BM resection; 315 patients aged at least 65 years (group A) were compared with 492 younger patients (group B). We analyzed the impact of the pre- and postoperative Karnofsky performance status (KPS), postoperative treatment structure and post-treatment survival. BM resection significantly improved KPS scores in both groups (
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