Gamma surgery for melanoma metastases in the brain

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 544-551

  Mingione, Vicenzo ^a   Oliveira, Marcelo ^a   Prasad, Dheerendra ^a   Steiner, Melita ^a   Steiner, Ladislau ^a  

^a Primary Care Building   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma knife; Melanoma; Metastasis; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; BRAIN SURGERY; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; MELANOMA; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 0036120071     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2002.96.3.0544     Document Type: Article

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