Article type: Letter to Editor
Article
title: Intraventricular
chemotherapy and nonsmall cell lung carcinoma
Journal: Vascular
Investigation and Therapy
Year: 2020
Authors: Jamir Pitton Rissardo, Ana Letícia Fornari
Caprara
E-mail: jamirrissardo@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
As Kaur et al. stated metastases to the choroid plexus, ventricles, pituitary gland, or leptomeninges are rare, and when encountered in clinical practice, the treatment is a tough decision. In this context, adenocarcinomas are the most common solid tumors to metastasize to the meninges. When lung cancer is analyzed, more than three-quarters of these metastases are related to adenocarcinoma histopathology. The development of new therapeutic options for the systemic treatment of nonsmall cell lung cancer is changing the landscape of this rapidly fatal clinical condition. Herein, we would like to discuss more leptomeningeal metastasis and intraventricular chemotherapy.
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DOI
10.4103/VIT.VIT_18_19
Citation
Rissardo
JP, Caprara AL. Intraventricular chemotherapy
and nonsmall cell lung carcinoma. Vasc Invest Ther 2019;2:105-6