Brain metastases treated wlth radiosurgery alone: An alternative to whole brain radiotherapy?

Neurosurgery

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1318-1326

  Hasegawa, Toshinori ^a   Kondziolka, Douglas ^a,b   Flickinger, John C ^a   Germanwala, Anand ^a   Lunsford, L Dade ^a   Adler Jr , John R ^c   Gutin, Philip H ^c   Tabar, Viviane ^c   Piepmeier, Joseph M ^c   Petrovich, Zbigniew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Brain metastasis; Radiosurgery; Radiotherapy; Survival; Tumor control

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0037941525     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000064569.18914.DE     Document Type: Article

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