Intracranial arteriovenous malformations treated utilizing a linear accelerator-based patient rotator or commercially available radiosurgery system

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 83, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 91-100

  Scarbrough, Todd J ^a,c   Crocker, Ian R ^b   Davis, Lawrence W ^b   Barrow, Daniel L ^b   Fowler, B Zach ^b   Oyesiku, Nelson M ^b  

^a Melbourne Cancer Center   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MIMA Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

BrainLab; Intracranial arteriovenous malformations; Linear accelerator based radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 24644517011     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000087125     Document Type: Article

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