[A case of recurrent malignant glioma treated by superselective intraarterial chemotherapy with a combination of etoposide and cisplatin].

Superselective intraarterial infusion of etoposide and cisplatin was performed in a patient with recurrent malignant glioma located in the left midbrain extending to thalamus which had progressed after two courses of radiotherapy and chemotherapy with various anticancer agents. Infusion of etoposide (80 mg/m2) and cisplatin (80 mg/m2) at the basilar top did not result in any neurological deficits when infused for 60 minutes with intermittent infusion of papaverine and nicardipine. CT scan carried out 6 days after chemotherapy demonstrated disappearance of the tumor.