Radiosurgery: Where we were, are, and may be in the third millennium

Neurosurgery

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 531-543

  Niranjan, Ajay ^a,b   Lunsford, L Dade ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Functional disorders; History; Radiosurgery; Tumors; Vascular malformations

Indexed keywords

CEREBROVASCULAR MALFORMATION; DOSIMETRY; EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEURORADIOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

EID: 0034100711     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200003000-00002     Document Type: Review

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