Less Common Indications for Stereotactic Radiosurgery or Fractionated Radiotherapy for Patients with Benign Brain Tumors

Neurosurgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 149-167

  Knisely, Jonathan P S ^a   Linskey, Mark E ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; RADIOISOTOPE;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASTROCYTOMA; AWARENESS; BONE NECROSIS; BRAIN STEM INJURY; BRAIN TOXICITY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CHEMODECTOMA; CHONDROSARCOMA; CHORDOMA; CHOROID PLEXUS PAPILLOMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; CYST FLUID; DERMATITIS; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EXTERNAL OTITIS; FIBROSIS; GLIOMA; GLOMUS TUMOR; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METASTASIS; MICROSURGERY; MORBIDITY; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARAGANGLIOMA; PHYSICIAN; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; PINEAL BODY TUMOR; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION NECROSIS; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEROUS OTITIS MEDIA; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SKULL SURGERY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDER; TOXICITY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VON HIPPEL LINDAU DISEASE; XEROSTOMIA;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHORDOMA; DOSE FRACTIONATION; GLOMUS TUMOR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROCYTOMA; PARAGANGLIOMA; PARAGANGLIOMA, EXTRA-ADRENAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PINEALOMA; RADIOSURGERY; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33746870405     PISSN: 10423680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nec.2006.04.003     Document Type: Review

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