Radiosurgery alone or in combination with whole-brain radiotherapy for brain metastases

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3563-3569

  Pirzkall, Andrea ^a   Debus, Jürgen ^a   Lohr, Frank ^a   Fuss, Martin ^a   Rhein, Bernhard ^a   Engenhart Cabillic, Rita ^a   Wannenmacher, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION NECROSIS; RADIOSURGERY; RELAPSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEROID THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0031791691     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.1998.16.11.3563     Document Type: Article

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