AGGRESSIVE BRAIN LYMPHOMA: SPECIALISTS FROM THE NATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH RADIOLOGICAL CENTRE SAVED A PATIENT FROM SEVERE COMPLICATIONS
Last autumn, 48-year-old Oksana was diagnosed with central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma—a rare and highly aggressive type of hematologic tumor that affects all structures of the CNS.Doctors at her local hospital decided to perform intra-arterial chemotherapy, a procedure in which chemotherapy drugs are delivered directly into the carotid artery. Unfortunately, she developed a severe...