Palliative surgery for brain metastases of malignant melanoma.

摘要: Forty patients with melanoma brain metastases were treated by surgery. Single found in 32 cases and multiple eight. The most frequent tumor location was the frontal frontoparietal lobes. Neurological improvement observed 25 surgical mortality rate less than 5%. median survival time for all 8 months. When cerebral excluded 13 3- 5-year 25% 15%, respectively. Seventeen extracerebral received treatment without known at of diagnosis. These had a that did not significantly differ from those occurrence metastases. Quality life as judged Karnofsky index improved after surgery maintained on an acceptable level remaining survival.