Special indications in gamma knife surgery

Acta Neurochirurgica, Supplementum

Volumn , Issue 91, 2004, Pages 89-92

  Wowra, B ^a   Muacevic, A ^a   Muller Schunk S ^a   Tonn, J C ^b  

^a German Gamma Knife Centre Munich   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gamma knife; Pilocytic astrocytoma; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

CANCER CONTROL; GAMMA KNIFE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NEOPLASM; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK; SIDE EFFECT; SURGERY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN; BRAIN TUMOR; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NEUROMA; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; SKULL IRRADIATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 2; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOSURGERY; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 15844398658     PISSN: 00651419     EISSN: 00016268     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-0583-2_10     Document Type: Article

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