Stereotactic radiosurgery of malignant and benign intracranial lesions utilizing a patient rotator

Radiation Oncology Investigations

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 20-30

  Alleyne Jr , Cargill H ^a   Fox, Tim H ^a   Olson, Jeffrey J ^a,c   Cotsonis, George A ^b   Crocker, Ian ^a   Bakay, Roy A E ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous malformation; Brain neoplasm; Linear accelerator; Radiosurgery; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

ADULT; BIOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 12644317833     PISSN: 10657541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6823(1997)5:1<20::AID-ROI4>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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