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What is your recommended long term management of extensive dural venous sinus thrombosis in an otherwise healthy young patient?
When would you stop anticoagulation?
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How would you manage a CVST secondary to a traumatic brain injury with the presence of intracranial hemorrhage?
When would you consider using anticoagulation and for how long?
4 Answers available
What is the preferred approach to managing non-occlusive or partially occlusive venous sinus thrombosis?
1 Answer available
When do you re-image patients with a diagnosis of venous sinus thrombosis?
2 Answers available
How would you approach treatment in a patient with Fanconi anemia and glioblastoma?
1 Answer available
How do you treat a young woman of child bearing age group diagnosed with primary CNS lymphoma?
The CALGB regimen is quite complicated. 
1 Answer available
For primary CNS lymphoma, when do you refer for whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT)?
My experience has been that patients can be neurologically devastated years out from WBRT. In Medical Oncology practice at my institution, we do not r...
1 Answer available
How would you approach primary CNS lymphoma in an elderly patient over 80 years old?
1 Answer available
Should whole brain radiation therapy and orbital radiation therapy be administered in situations of ocular B-cell lymphoma recurrence 2 years after primary CNS lymphoma treated with intrathecal methotrexate and no prior cranial irradiation?
1 Answer available


Papers discussed in this category

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2002-12-15
Combination chemotherapy and radiotherapy for primary central nervous system lymphoma: Radiation Therapy Oncology Group Study 93-10.
Lancet, 2009 Sep 18
High-dose cytarabine plus high-dose methotrexate versus high-dose methotrexate alone in patients with primary CNS lymphoma: a randomised phase 2 trial.
Neuro-oncology, 2009-04
High-dose methotrexate for elderly patients with primary CNS lymphoma.
Lancet Haematol, 2015 Jun 03
Methotrexate and temozolomide versus methotrexate, procarbazine, vincristine, and cytarabine for primary CNS lymphoma in an elderly population: an intergroup ANOCEF-GOELAMS randomised phase 2 trial.
Stroke, 2023 Sep 07
Study of Rivaroxaban for Cerebral Venous Thrombosis: A Randomized Controlled Feasibility Trial Comparing Anticoagulation With Rivaroxaban to Standard-of-Care in Symptomatic Cerebral Venous Thrombosis.
Stroke, 2024 Jan 29
Diagnosis and Management of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.

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