Boron neutron capture therapy for recurrent malignant meningioma: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 898-903

  Tamura, Yoji ^a   Miyatake, Shin Ichi ^a   Nonoguchi, Naosuke ^b   Miyata, Shirou ^b   Yokoyama, Kunio ^b   Doi, Atsushi ^b   Kuroiwa, Toshihiko ^b   Asada, Masahiro ^b   Tanabe, Hideki ^b   Ono, Koji ^b  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Boron neutron capture therapy; Malignant meningioma; Radiosurgery; Tumor recurrence

Indexed keywords

BORON;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HAIR LOSS; HUMAN; MALIGNANT MENINGIOMA; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REOPERATION;

EID: 33845480998     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2006.105.6.898     Document Type: Article

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