Radiosurgery plus or minus whole brain radiation therapy for the treatment of brain metastases. An editorial comment

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 461-462

  Lunsford, L Dade ^a   Flickinger, John C ^a  

^a PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MELANOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOSURGERY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC PROTOCOLS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33750443618     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2006.07.010     Document Type: Editorial

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