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MANAGEMENT OF SOLITARY MELANOMA METASTASIS OF THE BRAIN
Author(s) -
Guazzo E. P.,
Atkinson R. L.,
Weidmann M.,
Effeney D. J.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1989.tb01574.x
Subject(s) - medicine , melanoma , retrospective cohort study , surgery , brain metastasis , metastasis , metastatic melanoma , surgical excision , cancer , cancer research
A retrospective analysis of 31 patients operated upon for cerebral secondary melanoma was conducted. There was no operative mortality and no operative complications in 76% of cases. Significant and life‐threatening complications occurred in five patients (17%). The major benefit from surgical excision is relief of symptoms: 64% had complete remission of symptoms while a further 20% were substantially improved. A few patients' lives were prolonged by surgery and there are a number of long‐term survivors. Surgical excision should be performed when a patient has an accessible solitary cerebral secondary without evidence of melanoma elsewhere.