Gamma knife surgery for brain metastases in patients harboring four or more lesions: Survival and prognostic factors

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 102, Issue SUPPL., 2005, Pages 147-150

  Nam, Taek Kyun ^a   Lee, Jung Il ^a   Jung, Young Jo ^a   Im, Yong Seok ^a   An, Hee Ye ^a   Nam, Do Hyun ^a   Park, Kwan ^a   Kim, Jong Hyun ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Gamma knife surgery; Multiple brain metastases; Radiosurgery; Recursive partitioning analysis; Tumor volume

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN TUMOR; INSTRUMENTATION; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; SECOND CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOSURGERY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 13744249248     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2005.102.s_supplement.0147     Document Type: Article

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