LINAC radiosurgery in skull base meningiomas

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 333-338

  Deinsberger, Robert ^a,b   Tidstrand, J ^a   Sabitzer, H ^a   Lanner, G ^a  

^a GENERAL HOSPITAL KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Linac radiosurgery; Local tumor control; Radiotherapy; Skull base meningioma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE; HUMAN; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LINEAR ACCELERATOR RADIOSURGERY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 13844270679     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-830126     Document Type: Article

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