Gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery for synchronous versus metachronous solitary brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer

Lung Cancer

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 327-333

  Flannery, Todd W ^a   Suntharalingam, Mohan ^a   Kwok, Young ^a   Koffman, Bradley H ^a   Amin, Pradip P ^a   Chin, Lawrence S ^a   Nicol, Bradley ^b   Fowler, Zack ^a   Young, A Byron ^b   Regine, William F ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma knife; Non small cell lung cancer; Prognostic factors; Radiosurgery; Solitary brain metastasis; Whole brain radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 10744222978     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5002(03)00357-X     Document Type: Article

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