Clinical Results of Conformal Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery for Pituitary Adenoma

Neurosurgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 129-141

  Prasad, Dheerendra ^a  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARCINOGENESIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMAGING; IRRADIATION; LATENT PERIOD; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOMA; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745217126     PISSN: 10423680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nec.2006.04.001     Document Type: Review

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