Lateral positioning technique for the treatment of far-lateral targets with the Leksell gamma knife: Technical note

Neurosurgery

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1512-1519

  Massager, Nicolas ^a   Régis, Jean ^b   Porcheron, Denis ^b   Devriendt, Daniel ^a   Desmedt, Françoise ^a   Levivier, Marc ^a   Chen, Joseph C T ^c   Pollock, Bruce E ^c   Lunsford, L Dade ^c   De Lotbinière, Alain ^c  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c University Hospital Erasme ^*

Author keywords

Gamma knife; Lateral; Position; Radiosurgery; Temporal

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; GAMMA KNIFE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOSURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; RADIOSURGERY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0036948903     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200212000-00025     Document Type: Article

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