Growth control of cranial base meningiomas by stereotactic radiosurgery with a gamma knife unit

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 7-10

  Tanaka, Takayuki ^a   Kobayashi, Tatsuya ^a   Kida, Yoshihisa ^a  

^a KOMAKI CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

cranial base; gamma knife; meningioma; radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA RADIATION; GROWTH REGULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOSURGERY; SKULL BASE; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0030053522     PISSN: 03872572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.36.7     Document Type: Article

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