title: [Clinical symptoms and symptomatic management of brain metastases].
abstract: Cancer patients frequently develop brain metastases. Symptomatic treatments are important to stabilize these patients before an oncological procedure (usually radiotherapy, sometimes surgery or chemotherapy) can be started. These symptomatic treatments mainly rely on steroids to reduce the peritumoral edema; anti-epileptic drugs for patients who previously had seizures, and low-molecular-weight heparin for patients at risk of thrombo-embolic events.
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Avicenne, service de neurologie, 125, route de Stalingrad, 93009 Bobigny, France.
authors.forename: Ahmed
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kallel
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bailon
authors.forename: Antoine F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Carpentier
mesh_terms: D001929:Brain Edema / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006261:Headache / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D019586:Intracranial Hypertension / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D013923:Thromboembolism / Q000188:drug therapy