The cost effectiveness of stereotactic radiosurgery versus surgical resection in the treatment of solitary metastatic brain tumors

Neurosurgery

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 445-455

  Rutigliano, Michael J ^a   Lunsford, L Dade ^a   Kondziolka, Douglas ^a   Strauss, Michael J ^b   Khanna, Vikram ^b   Green, Martha ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UK   (United States)

^c Health Technology Associates Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Brain tumors; Economics; Metastasis; Radiation; Radiosurgery; Surgery

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60;

BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; BRAIN SURGERY; COBALT THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRANIOTOMY; HUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RADIOSURGERY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REOPERATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0029129002     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: 15244040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/00006123-199509000-00012     Document Type: Article

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