CyberKnife stereotactic radiotherapy for patients with malignant glioma

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 110-115

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

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Konan St Hill Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

CyberKnife; Fractionated radiosurgery; Malignant glioma; Stereotactic radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIATION NECROSIS; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33744927695     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-932183     Document Type: Article

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