Fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy of glomus jugulare tumors: Local control, toxicity, symptomatology, and quality of life

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 183, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 557-562

  Henzel, Martin ^a   Hamm, Klaus ^b   Gross, Markus W ^a   Surber, Gunnar ^b   Kleinert, Gabriele ^b   Failing, Thomas ^a   Sitter, Helmut ^a   Strassmann, Gerd ^a   Engenhart Cabillic, Rita ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b HELIOS KLINIKUM ERFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glomus jugulare tumor; Stereotactic radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CHEMODECTOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; SHORT FORM 36; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMUS JUGULARE TUMOR; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34748871406     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-007-1701-6     Document Type: Article

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