Radiosurgery for patients with recurrent small cell lung carcinoma metastatic to the brain: Outcomes and prognostic factors

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 102, Issue SUPPL., 2005, Pages 247-254

  Sheehan, Jason ^a   Kondziolka, Douglas ^b   Flickinger, John ^b   Lunsford, L Dade ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Gamma knife surgery; Metastasis; Small cell lung carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT CANCER; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; BIOPSY; BRAIN TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 13744262261     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2005.102.s_supplement.0247     Document Type: Article

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