Fractionated stereotactic radiation therapy in the management of benign cavernous sinus meningiomas: Long-term experience and review of the literature

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 182, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 635-640

  Milker Zabel, Stefanie ^a   Zabel Du Bois, Angelika ^a   Huber, Peter ^b   Schlegel, Wolfgang ^b   Debus, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cavernous sinus meningioma; Fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (FSRT); Local control; Long term experience; Review of the literature

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOPIA; DYSESTHESIA; FOLLOW UP; HAIR LOSS; HEART FAILURE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRRADIATION; LACRIMATION DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGIOMA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN IRRITATION; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CAVERNOUS SINUS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REMISSION INDUCTION; SAFETY; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750482216     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-006-1548-2     Document Type: Article

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