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What criteria do you use to decide whether to start anticonvulsants in patients with brain metastases?

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Radiation Oncology · Tennessee Oncology

Patients with intact brain metastases in the absence of seizure activity should generally not be receiving prophylactic anticonvulsants based on 2019 guidelines from the Congress of Neurologic Surgeons subsequently endorsed by SNO and ASCO. The practice of prophylactic AEDs in the post-op setting is...

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