Sterile abscesses in glioma patients treated by intraparenchymal injection of lymphokine-activated killer cells and recombinant interleukin-2: case reports.
Sterile abscesses in glioma patients treated by intraparenchymal injection of lymphokine-activated killer cells and recombinant interleukin-2: case reports.
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脑实质内注射淋巴因子激活的杀伤细胞和重组白细胞介素 2 治疗神经胶质瘤患者的无菌脓肿:病例报告。
DOI:
10.1097/00006123-198911000-00019
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发表时间:
1989
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影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Young,HF
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作者:
Atkinson,LL;Merchant,RE;Ghatak,NR;Young,HF
: Earlier, we conducted Phase I clinical trials to determine any acute toxicity of adoptive immunotherapy with intralesional injections of autologous lymphocytes expressing lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) activity and recombinant interleukin-2 (rIL-2) in patients with malignant glioma. Within six weeks of craniotomy and intralesional injection of autologous LAK cells plus rIL-2, 3 of 29 patients demonstrated a decline in clinical status and evidence on computed tomographic and magnetic resonance imaging scans of edema and mass of unknown character at the site of previous surgery and immunotherapy. Craniotomy was performed to remove the tissue and reduce intracranial pressure. Microscopic examination of the excised material indicated no new tumor growth within the resected mass, but rather that the tissue had the histological characteristics of a chronic sterile abscess including necrosis, fibrosis, and influx of inflammatory cells. Factors that may have contributed to this reaction in the 3 patients were age, Karnofsky score, the extent of tumor excision, and immune status. All 3 had also been treated with greater than average numbers of rIL-2 activated lymphocytes that demonstrated significant in vitro LAK activity. The results suggest that in patients whose clinical status is good and who are not immunosuppressed by corticosteroids, the dose-limiting toxicity of intraparenchymal immunotherapy with LAK cells plus rIL-2 for glioma may be related to the total, absolute number of activated cells injected, and this toxicity develops over time and is manifested by development of a sterile abscess.(Neurosurgery 25: 805-809, 1989)