Stereotactic Radiosurgery in the intracranial benign neoplasms and maligmant tumors of the brain;A Radiocirurgia Estereotáxica em tumores benignos e malignos do sistema nervoso central

Acta Medica Portuguesa

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 45-60

  Mascarenhas, Francisco ^a   Sa Da Costa M ^a   Ortiz, M ^a   Almeida, A ^a   Carvalho, H ^a   Goncalves Ferreira A ^a   Cattoni, M B ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Acoustic neurinomas; Brain metastases; Glomus jugulare tumors; Malignant gliomas; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

BENIGN TUMOR; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CHEMODECTOMA; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NEURINOMA; PORTUGAL; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 22144439830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16460758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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