Neurology

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Questions discussed in this category


Specifically, headaches thought not to be related to increased ICP.

If so, how long do you continue medication and when do you discontinue? Does treatment with surgical resection versus radiation alone change your mana...

Labs with normal PT, but prolonged PTT (47 sec, ULN 40 sec) that does not correct on immediate mix. Lupus anticoagulant negative (DRVVT and hexagonal ...

Are there specific safety concerns or long-term risks that should be accounted for when considering drug holidays or overall treatment duration?

How will you implement response assessments in patients starting tovorafenib given potential for pseudoprogression vs true progression?

Is it merely another option to try or will it become the standard choice for patients experiencing relapsed/refractory disease?

Is there utility when classic inflammatory markers (ESR,CRP) or disease specific markers (C3, C4, dsDNA) do not correlate with patients disease activi...

Do you treat this similarly to IDH-Wildtype GBM with the STUPP regimen? Is there any role of less-intensive paradigms, such as 59.4 Gy/33 fx?

The ASH 2020 guidelines have "recommended that adults with HbSS or HbSβ0 thalassemia be screened at least once for silent cerebral infarcts even ...

Is your approach different than that to a primary essential tremor?

What would be your next treatment for a young adult patient with medulloblastoma refractory to repeat resection, craniospinal irradiation, and initial...

Do you just use antibiotic prophylaxis if therapy is started prior to meningococcal vaccination?

Do you ever add prophylactic Keppra (levetiracetam) for glioblastoma patients without a seizure history based on data such as this study (nature.com) ...


Papers discussed in this category


Pediatric emergency care, 2008-04

Clin Nucl Med,

World J Surg Oncol, 2019 Mar 27

Asian J Neurosurg,

American journal of hematology, 2023 May 12

The New England journal of medicine, 2014 Aug 21

Acta Neurochir (Wien), 2019 Jan 29

J. Clin. Oncol., 2020 Feb 14

Cancer, 2020 May 19

Arthritis Rheumatol, 2021 Apr 01

Cancer, 2011 Feb 01

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2016-03-01

Sci Rep, 2020 Jul 01

Neuro Oncol,

Clin Microbiol Infect, 2018 Feb 07

Pediatr Blood Cancer, 2021 Apr 12

Clinical pharmacokinetics, 2018-12

Frontiers in immunology, 2018

Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.), 2020 Jul 15

The Pediatric infectious disease journal, 2018 Oct

Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, 2017 Nov 03

Journal of neurosurgery, 2013-04

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2019-05-01

Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2020 Apr 28

Pediatr Blood Cancer, 2021 Oct

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2019-04-20

Neuro-oncology advances, 2021 Apr 19

Nature medicine, 2023 Nov 17

The New England journal of medicine, 2023 Sep 21

Journal of the Endocrine Society, 2022 Dec 02

Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2021 Apr 20

Stroke, 2023 Sep 07

Stroke, 2024 Jan 29

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2006 Dec 1

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2019 Oct 10

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al], 2021 May 05

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2013-03-01

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2020 Jan 24

Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, 2001 Mar

Cancer research and treatment, 2006 Dec 31