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Anticancer Chemotherapy

Prognostic factors and clinical features in patients with leptominengeal metastases from breast cancer: a single center experience

Icro Meattini Department of Radiation-OncologyUniversity of Florence, Florence, ItalyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Lorenzo Livi Department of Radiation-OncologyUniversity of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Calogero Saieva Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit ISPO − Cancer Prevention and Research InstituteFlorence, Italy
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Davide Franceschini Department of Radiation-OncologyUniversity of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Livia Marrazzo Medical Physics Unit
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Daniela Greto Department of Radiation-OncologyUniversity of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Vieri Scotti Department of Radiation-OncologyUniversity of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Silvia Scoccianti Department of Radiation-OncologyUniversity of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Fabiola Paiar Department of Radiation-OncologyUniversity of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Lorenzo Bordi Neurological Surgery
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Jacopo Nori Diagnostic Senology Unit
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Luis Sanchez Department of SurgeryUniversity of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Lorenzo Orzalesi Department of SurgeryUniversity of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Simonetta Bianchi Division of Pathological AnatomyDepartment of Medical and Surgical Critical Care, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Giampaolo Biti Department of Radiation-OncologyUniversity of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Pages 279-284 | Published online: 12 Nov 2013

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