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The authors report on the results obtained on a series of 325 patients operated on for single brain metastasis at the Institute of Neurosurgery of the University of Rome during the period 1951–1979.
After analyzing the resultsvis-à-vis the site of the brain metastasis, the site of the primitive tumour and the surgical treatment administered; emphasis is given to the importance of the advent of the CT scan which has permitted a more accurate selection of the patients resulting in improvement in operative mortality and average survival time which at present is one year.
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Gagliardi, F.M., Mercuri, S. Single metastases in the brain: Late results in 325 cases. Acta neurochir 68, 253–262 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01401183
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