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KMID : 0378019820250020093
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New Medical Journal
1982 Volume.25 No. 2 p.93 ~ p.99
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A clinical study of post-operative combined radiation therapy of high grade astrocytoma
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김상훈/Kim, Sang-Hoon
이승재/백민우/박효일/Lee, Seung-jae/Paek, Min-woo/Park, Hyo-il
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Abstract
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The high grade astrocytoma has shown lower survival ratio inspite of the various thera￢peutic trials and the combined therapy in the literatures. The factors of therapeutic failure were the limitation of complete extirpation of astrocytoma and its high regrowing tendency from post-operative remnants.
Recently, we experienced two cases of astrocytomas grade II to I which were managed as total extirpation in the surgical field and post-operative radiation therapy with the dosage of 5500 Rads over six weeks. The result of these combined therapy was excellent clinically. The follow up brain CT scan over one year later the combined therapy showed clearly healed up of the mass lesion without evidence of remnants and also regrowing.
These experience and reviewing of literatures was yielded a suggestion that total extirpation of tumor in the surgical field plus postoperative radiation therapy was a possible choice of treatment of high grade astrocytomas.
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