Cavernous sinus meningiomas - What is the strategy: Upfront or adjuvant Gamma Knife surgery?

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 70, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1998, Pages 33-40

  Pendl, G ^a   Schrottner O ^a   Eustacehio, S ^a   Ganz, J C ^a   Feichtinger, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cavernous sinus; Gamma Knife; Meningioma; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFERENCE PAPER; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENINGIOMA; MICROSURGERY; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 0031758735     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000056404     Document Type: Conference Paper

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