Radiosurgery with the world's first fully robotized leksell gamma knife perfeXion in clinical use: A 200-patient prospective, randomized, controlled comparison with the gamma knife 4C

Neurosurgery

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 346-355

  Régis, Jean ^a,b,c   Tamura, Manabu ^b   Guillot, Cécile ^b   Yomo, Shoji ^b   Muraciolle, Xavier ^b   Nagaje, Mariko ^b   Arka, Yasser ^b   Porcheron, Denis ^b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous malformation; Radiosurgery; Robotization; Stereotactic radiotherapy; Vestibular schwannomas

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADENOMA; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EVALUATION; FRANCE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MENINGIOMA; METASTASIS; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMETER; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 61449145512     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000337578.00814.75     Document Type: Article

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