Survey on Willingness to Pay for Life-Saving Treatment, Functional Recovery, and Cosmesis in a Neuroscience Outpatient Clinic Setting in Singapore.

Background: Neurologic disorders impose a heavy burden on healthcare in Singapore. To date, no data on the willingness to pay (WTP) for neurologic treatments has been reported in the local population.

Objectives: We aimed to quantify the value of various health domains to neuroscience patients and their caregivers by comparing their WTP for different types of treatments.

Vanishing glioblastoma after corticosteroid therapy.

A recurrent right temporal glioblastoma that vanished on MRI after a short course of intense corticosteroid therapy is reported. This was associated with development of new multicentric lesions in the right frontal lobe and right splenium of the corpus callosum. Rapid disappearance of tumor with steroid therapy is frequently associated with lymphoma and is rarely described in high-grade gliomas.