Risk of malignancy after gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 60-65

  Rowe, Jeremy ^a   Grainger, Alison ^a   Walton, Lee ^a   Silcocks, Paul ^b   Radatz, Matthias ^a   Kemeny, Andras ^a  

^a ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Trent Cancer Registry   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gamma knife; Late radiation complications; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM SEEDING; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33846205196     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000255492.34063.32     Document Type: Article

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