CyberKnife stereotactic irradiation for metastatic brain tumors

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 299-304

  Shimamoto, Shigetoshi ^a   Inoue, Takehiro ^b   Shiomi, Hiroya ^b   Sumida, Iori ^b   Yamada, Yuji ^b   Tanaka, Eiichi ^b   Inoue, Toshihiko ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

CyberKnife; Local control; Metastatic brain tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; CYBERKNIFE; DEVICE; DOSE RESPONSE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; SAFETY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOSURGERY; ROBOTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036874418     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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