Treatment of Solitary Brain Metastasis: Resection Followed by Whole Brain Radiation Therapy (WBRT) and a Radiation Boost to the Metastatic Site

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 144-147

  Rades, Dirk ^a   Raabe, Annette ^a   Bajrovic, Amira ^a   Alberti, Winfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Radiation boost; Resection of metastasis; Solitary brain metastasis; Whole brain radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; BRAIN SURGERY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1542379753     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-004-1159-8     Document Type: Article

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