Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria (Sep 1995)

Metástase cerebral: tratamento paliativo com radiocirurgia Brain metastasis: palliative treatment with radiosurgery

  • Sérgio L. Faria,
  • Luis Souhami,
  • Jean-Paul Bahary,
  • Jean-Louis Caron,
  • Jean-Guy Villemure,
  • André Olivier,
  • Brenda Clark,
  • Ervin B. Podgorsak

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0004-282X1995000400004
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 53, no. 3b
pp. 570 – 576

Abstract

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O artigo faz avaliação de 52 pacientes com metástase cerebral tratados com radiocirurgia estereotática na Universidade McGill, em Montreal. A radiocirurgia foi realizada com a técnica dinâmica em que, ao mesmo tempo, giram a mesa e a cabeça do acelerador linear de 10 MV. Todos os pacientes (56 tratamentos ao todo) foram tratados com um único isocentro e uma dose única mediana de 1800 cGy na periferia da metástase. Em 88% dos casos a radiocirurgia foi usada após falha de tratamento radioterápico fracionado em todo cérebro. Todos os 52 casos tiveram avaliação com CT pós radiocirurgia. O seguimento mediano foi de 6 meses (variou entre 1 e 37 meses) e a taxa de resposta, parcial ou completa, foi de 64%. Apenas 4 pacientes (7%) tiveram algum tipo de complicação tardia relacionada ao tratamento. Estes achados vão de encontro com dados da literatura. A radiocirurgia é tratamento pouco agressivo, bem tolerado e com alta taxa de resposta para lesões locais e pode ser útil para pacientes selecionados. O seu valor definitivo, como tratamento único ou combinado com radioterapia em todo cérebro, está sendo avaliado de forma prospectiva e randomizada.This is a retrospective review of 52 patients with metastatic brain disease who underwent stereotactic radiosurgery at McGill University in Montreal. The radiosurgical treatment was performed with the dynamic rotation technique in which there is continuous and simultaneous movement of treatment couch and machine gantry of a 10 MV linac. All patients were treated with a single isocenter and a median dose of 1800 cGy was delivered. In 88% of the cases radiosurgery was given after failure from whole brain conventional irradiation. All 52 cases were assessed with brain CT post radiosurgery. The median follow up time was 6 months (range 1 -37 months) and the response rate (partial or complete) was 64%. Only 4 patientes (7%) developed late complications related to the treatment. These findings are similar to the literature. Stereotactic radiosurgery is a well tolerated, effective and minimally invasive treatment technique which has a high response rate in selected patients with small, well delineated metastatic brain lesion. Its definitive value as a single therapy or combined with whole brain conventional radiotherapy is being studied in prospective and randomized trials.

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