Pediatric Oncology

Neurology

Questions discussed in this category

What are some alternatives to dexamethasone for brain edema in patients who are allergic, have an intolerance, or refuse the medication?

5 Answers available

How do you manage drug-induced thrombocytopenia when the implicated drug is essential?

e.g. DITP from eptifibatide after a cardiac intervention

1 Answer available

What features help distinguish thyroid myopathy from immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated myopathy?

1 Answer available

How do you approach treatment of a glioblastoma in pregnancy?

3 Answers available

Is placing a VP shunt a major risk to spread medulloblastoma or other malignant brain tumors into the gut?

1 Answer available

Papers discussed in this category

Pediatric emergency care, 2008-04

Clinical diagnosis of ventriculoperitoneal shunt failure among children with hydrocephalus.

Clin Nucl Med,

Extracranial Metastases From Glioblastoma With Primitive Neuronal Components on FDG PET/CT.

World J Surg Oncol, 2019 Mar 27

Clinical outcome of cerebrospinal fluid shunts in patients with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis.

Asian J Neurosurg,

Widespread Intra-abdominal Carcinomatosis from a Rhabdoid Meningioma after Placement of a Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.

Acta Neurochir (Wien), 2019 Jan 29

Influence of pregnancy on glioma patients.

J. Clin. Oncol., 2020 Feb 14

Hippocampal Avoidance During Whole-Brain Radiotherapy Plus Memantine for Patients With Brain Metastases: Phase III Trial NRG Oncology CC001.

Cancer, 2020 May 19

Second cancer risk after primary cancer treatment with three-dimensional conformal, intensity-modulated, or proton beam radiation therapy.

Arthritis Rheumatol, 2021 Apr 01

Inflammatory Myositis in Cancer Patients Receiving Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors.

Cancer, 2011 Feb 01

Boswellia serrata acts on cerebral edema in patients irradiated for brain tumors: a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind pilot trial.

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