Brain metastases in gastrointestinal cancers: is there a role for surgery?

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Published in Int J Mol Sci on September 22, 2014

Authors

Johannes Lemke1, Jan Scheele2, Thomas Kapapa3, Silvia von Karstedt4, Christian Rainer Wirtz5, Doris Henne-Bruns6, Marko Kornmann7

Author Affiliations

1: Clinic of General and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, Ulm 89071, Germany. johanneslemke@gmx.de.
2: Clinic of General and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, Ulm 89071, Germany. jan.scheele@uniklinik-ulm.de.
3: Clinic of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, Ulm 89071, Germany. thomas.kapapa@uniklinik-ulm.de.
4: UCL Cancer Institute, University College London, 72 Huntley Street, London WC1E 6DD, UK. s.karstedt@ucl.ac.uk.
5: Clinic of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, Ulm 89071, Germany. rainer.wirtz@uniklinik-ulm.de.
6: Clinic of General and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, Ulm 89071, Germany. doris.henne-bruns@uniklinik-ulm.de.
7: Clinic of General and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, Ulm 89071, Germany. marko.kornmann@uniklinik-ulm.de.

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