Malignant progression of benign brain tumors after gamma knife radiosurgery: Is it really caused by irradiation?

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 334-339

  Kubo, Osami ^a   Chernov, M ^a   Izawa, M ^a   Hayashi, M ^a   Muragaki, Y ^a   Maruyama, T ^a   Hori, T ^a   Takakura, K ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Gamma knife radiosurgery; Malignant transformation; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CHORDOMA; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IONIZING RADIATION; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MENINGIOMA; NEURILEMOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHORDOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEURILEMMOMA; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 32344441406     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-915632     Document Type: Article

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