Image-guided stereotactic radiosurgery with the CyberKnife for pituitary adenomas

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 91-96

  Kajiwara, Koji ^a   Saito, K ^b   Yoshikawa, K ^a   Kato, S ^a   Akimura, T ^a   Nomura, S ^a   Ishihara, H ^a   Suzuki, M ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Konan Saint Hill Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

CyberKnife; Fractionation; Pituitary adenoma; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOPITUITARISM; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROLACTINOMA; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CHILD; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RADIOSURGERY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 20044362623     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-830261     Document Type: Article

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