title: Surgical management of cerebral metastases.
abstract: Important issues related to surgery for patient with cerebral metastases, including surgical anatomy and techniques, patient selection criteria, surgery for multiple and recurrent metastases, and the roles of adjunctive whole brain radiation, and stereotactic radiosurgery. A practical algorithm for decision making and survival statistics for the common metastatic tumors have been developed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA.
authors.forename: F F
authors.initials: FF
authors.lastname: Lang
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sawaya
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000465:Algorithms; D001931:Brain Mapping; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D019090:Case Management; D006801:Humans; D018579:Patient Selection; D011379:Prognosis; D016634:Radiosurgery; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted