Surgery for recurrent medulloblastoma: a review.
CONCLUSION: Recurrent medulloblastoma is often fatal in children who have previously received radiotherapy. The role of surgery in improving survival is unclear, but there is some evidence that resection of a focal single posterior fossa recurrence can bring survival benefit. The value of biopsy lies in the optimisation and selection of appropriate targeted therapy and in excluding a second malignancy.
PMID: 31351079 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Neuro-Chirurgie - Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Rolland A, Aquilina K Tags: Neurochirurgie Source Type: research
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