Gamma Knife surgery for metastatic brain tumors from renal cell carcinoma

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 555-560

  Shuto, Takashi ^a   Inomori, Shigeo ^a   Fujino, Hideyo ^a   Nagano, Hisato ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral metastasis; Gamma Knife surgery; Radiosurgery; Renal cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33749505681     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2006.105.4.555     Document Type: Review

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