Intracranial arteriovenous malformations treated with linear accelerator-based conformal radiosurgery: clinical outcome and prediction of obliteration

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 487-491

  Moreno Jiménez, Sergio ^a   Celis, Miguel Angel ^a   Lárraga Gutiérrez, José Manuel ^a   de Jesús Suárez Campos, José ^a   García Garduño, Amanda ^a   Hernández Bojórquez, Mariana ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous malformations; Clinical outcome; Conformal radiosurgery; LINAC; Obliteration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EDEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRESCRIPTION; RADIOSURGERY; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOSURGERY; RECURRENCE; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34147168279     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2006.08.076     Document Type: Article

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