Gagliardi F M, Mercuri S
Acta Neurochir (Wien). 1983;68(3-4):253-62. doi: 10.1007/BF01401183.
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 results vis-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.
作者报告了1951年至1979年期间在罗马大学神经外科研究所对325例因单发脑转移瘤接受手术治疗的患者所取得的结果。在分析了相对于脑转移瘤部位、原发肿瘤部位和所施行的手术治疗的结果后；强调了CT扫描出现的重要性，它使得能够更准确地选择患者，从而降低了手术死亡率并延长了平均生存时间，目前平均生存时间为一年。
