Gross total resection: Do we want survival statistics or quality of life measurements

Gross total resection: Do we want survival statistics or quality of life measurements

[...]proper organized studies should be done. Given that fact, should we offer a patient a deficit for their short life or QOL with surgery? I remember a story of Dr Paul Bucy, a famous pioneer neurosurgeon and founder of Surgical Neurology, the print predecessor of SNI, who did a hemispherectomy in...

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Veröffentlicht in:Surgical neurology international 2014, Vol.5 (1), p.77
1. Verfasser: Ausman, James I
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Mortality
Quality of life
Radiation therapy
Statistics
Surgery
Tumors
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Zusammenfassung:[...]proper organized studies should be done. Given that fact, should we offer a patient a deficit for their short life or QOL with surgery? I remember a story of Dr Paul Bucy, a famous pioneer neurosurgeon and founder of Surgical Neurology, the print predecessor of SNI, who did a hemispherectomy in 1948 on a patient with a GBM to remove all the tumor he could find.
ISSN:2229-5097
2152-7806
2152-7806
DOI:10.4103/2152-7806.133200