Is unchanged tumor volume after radiosurgery a measure of outcome?

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 66, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1997, Pages 231-239

  Yamamoto, M ^a   Jimbo, M ^b   Ide, M ^b   Umebara, Y ^b   Hagiwara, S ^b   Takakura, K ^b   Hirai, T ^b  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

brain tumor; Gamma Knife; hemangioblastoma; meningioma; neurinoma; radiosurgery; tumor doubling time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GAMMA IRRADIATION; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NEURINOMA; RADIOSURGERY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; RADIOSURGERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 12644311248     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000099815     Document Type: Conference Paper

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