Stereotactically delivered cranial radiation therapy: A ten-year experience of linac-based radiosurgery in the UK

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 303-320

  Sims, E ^a   Doughty, D ^a   Macaulay, E ^a   Royle, N ^a   Wraith, C ^a   Darlison, R ^a   Plowman, P N ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Radiosurgery; Relocatable stereotactic frame; Stereotactic radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

YTTRIUM 90;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; BRAIN STEM; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CHORDOMA; COCHLEAR NERVE; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; EPILEPSY; GLOMUS TUMOR; HEARING; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC CHIASM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOSURGERY; RECURRENT DISEASE; STEREOTAXIS; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED KINGDOM; VON HIPPEL LINDAU DISEASE;

EID: 0032726928     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/clon.1999.9073     Document Type: Review

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