Therapeutic management of patients with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LC) may require treatment of concomitant hydrocephalus (HC) in addition to intrathecal chemotherapy (ITC). Ventriculoperitonea...
to intrathecal chemotherapy (ITC). Ventriculoperitoneal shunts (VPS) equipped with a valve... The present study describes a combination procedure consisting of a standard VPS-system and a...
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In 2021, J. David Garrett, Ph.D., began to experience pain in his upper abdomen and back. He initially blamed it on acid reflux. When the pain started to affect his daily activities, his wife, Ruth, encouraged him to see his doctor. David’s doctor conducted several tests, but the results showed nothing serious. His doctor suggested a CT scan and MRI. Later that day, David’s doctor called to tell him there was a large mass on his pancreas. A biopsy confirmed it was pancreatic cancer. ...
Setting The entire procedure, namely, the initiation of sedation and intrathecal chemotherapy, was performed in one of the three settings, each of which differed greatly in appearance for...
Intrathecal chemotherapy is a specialized treatment where chemotherapy drugs are directly injected into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).
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Overview ; Chemotherapy is a drug treatment that uses powerful chemicals to kill fast-growing cells in your body. ; Chemotherapy is most often used to treat cancer, since cancer cells grow and multiply much more quickly than most cells in the body. ; Many different chemotherapy drugs are available. Chemotherapy drugs can be used alone or in combination to treat a wide variety of cancers.
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