Outcome After Pituitary Radiosurgery for Thalamic Pain Syndrome

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 852-857

  Hayashi, Motohiro ^a,b   Chernov, Mikhail F ^a   Taira, Takaomi ^a   Ochiai, Taku ^a,b   Nakaya, Kotaro ^a   Tamura, Noriko ^a   Goto, Shinichi ^a   Yomo, Shoji ^a   Kouyama, Nobuo ^a   Katayama, Yoko ^a   Kawakami, Yoriko ^a   Izawa, Masahiro ^a   Muragaki, Yoshihiro ^a   Nakamura, Ryoichi ^a   Iseki, Hiroshi ^a   Hori, Tomokatsu ^a   Takakura, Kintomo ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b San ai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gamma Knife radiosurgery; Outcome; Pituitary irradiation; Thalamic pain syndrome; Treatment

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; SURGERY;

GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY IRRADIATION; THALAMIC PAIN SYNDROME;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOPHYSIS; MALE; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS PAIN SYNDROME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; PITUITARY GLAND; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; STROKE; SYNDROME; THALAMIC DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548679139     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.04.043     Document Type: Article

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