Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for recurrent, residual, or untreated skull-base meningiomas: Preliminary clinical experience

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 362-372

  Pirzkall, Andrea ^a,b   Debus, Jürgen ^a,c   Haering, Peter ^c   Rhein, Bernhard ^c   Grosser, Karl Heinz ^c   Höss, Angelika ^c   Wannenmacher, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D conformal radiotherapy (CRT); Central nervous system (CNS); Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT); Inverse treatment planning; Meningioma; Multileaf collimator

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; NEUROLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; TUMORS;

STERIOTACTIC SYSTEM;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OTITIS MEDIA; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INDUCED EMESIS; SAFETY; SKULL BASE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SKULL BASE; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0037297065     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(02)03809-9     Document Type: Article

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