Background. A 37-year-old woman presented with a supratentorial cerebral mass, which was diagnosed histologically as a primitive neuroectodermal tumor. She had been treated for rectal ...

Corticosteroids decrease brain edema. In central nervous system tumors, corticosteroids have been found not only to reduce peritumoral and vasogenic brain edema, but also reduce increased ...

The incidence of secondary tumors in the brain is considerably greater than the incidence of primary brain tumors, and is on the increase owing to improved survival of patients with cancer.

The usual but empirical initial dose in brain tumor patients is an intravenous bolus of 10 mg of dexamethasone, followed by a maintenance dose of 4 mg given by the intravenous (IV) route every 6 ...