Adjuvant gamma knife radiosurgery after meningioma resection

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 715-718

  Iwai, Yoshiyasu ^a   Yamanaka, Kazuhiro ^a   Morikawa, Toshie ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

benign neoplasm; gamma knife; meningioma; radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4444297059     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2003.10.027     Document Type: Article

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