61 research outputs found
FACT-MNG: tumor site specific web-based outcome instrument for meningioma patients
To formulate Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Meningioma (FACT-MNG), a web-based tumor site-specific outcome instrument for assessing intracranial meningioma patients following surgical resection or stereotactic radiosurgery. We surveyed the relevant literature available on intracranial meningioma surgery and subsequent outcomes (38 papers), making note of which, if any, QOL/outcome instruments were utilized. None of the surgveyed papers included QOL assessment specific to tumor site. We subsequently developed questions that were relevant to the signs and symptoms that characterize each of 11 intracranial meningioma sites, and incorporated them into a modified combination of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Brain (FACT-BR) and SF36 outcome instruments, thereby creating a new tumor site-specific outcome instrument, FACT-MNG. With outcomes analysis of surgical and radiosurgical treatments becoming more important, measures of the adequacy and success of treatment are needed. FACT-MNG represents a first effort to formalize such an instrument for meningioma patients. Questions specific to tumor site will allow surgeons to better assess specific quality of life issues not addressed in the past by more general questionnaires
Stereotactic fibrinolysis of spontaneous intracerebral hematoma using infusion of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator
Roles of programmed death protein 1/programmed death-ligand 1 in secondary brain injury after intracerebral hemorrhage in rats: selective modulation of microglia polarization to anti-inflammatory phenotype
Surgical treatment of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage in Germany - results of surveys 1999 and 2009
I can hear my shunt - audible noises associated with CSF-shunts in hydrocephalic patients
Nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE), a postoperative complication after craniotomy for supratentorial tumors
Surgical treatment of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage in Germany - results of surveys 1999 and 2009
Isoprostan und der zerebrale Metabolismus nach aneurysmatischer Subarachnoidalblutung des Menschen - vorlÀufige Ergebnisse
Zisternaler Liqour von SAB-Patienten induziert zytosolische endotheliale Kalziumoszillationen via Ca2+-ATPase des endoplasmatischen Reticulums
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