The role of gamma knife radiosurgery in children

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 341-346

  Eder, Hans G ^a   Leber, Klaus A ^a   Eustacchio, Sandro ^a   Pendl, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous malformation; Brain tumor; Children; Gamma knife; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHOROID PLEXUS PAPILLOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GLIOMA; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MALE; MENINGIOMA; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SAFETY; SKULL BASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 0035009359     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003810000435     Document Type: Article

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