Gamma knife radiosurgery for arteriovenous malformations: Long-term follow-up results focusing on complications occurring more than 5 years after irradiation

Neurosurgery

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 906-914

  Yamamoto, Masaaki ^a   Jimbo, Minoru ^a   Hara, Mitsuhiro ^b   Saito, Isamu ^b   Mori, Koreaki ^c  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous malformation; Complication; Cyst formation; Gamma knife; Radiosurgery; Subsequent bleeding

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN CYST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSONISM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; SCHOOL CHILD; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHILD; CYSTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOSURGERY; REOPERATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029928559     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199605000-00010     Document Type: Article

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