Treatment of chordomas with CyberKnife: Georgetown university experience and treatment recommendations

Neurosurgery

Volumn 64, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2009, Pages

  Henderson, Fraser C ^a   McCool, Kyle ^a   Seigle, Juliet ^b   Jean, Walter ^c   Harter, William ^c   Gagnon, Gregory J ^c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Shady Grove Adventist Hospital   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ratio; Chordoma; Cyberknife; Quality of life; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHONDROMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYBERKNIFE; DEATH; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOSURGERY; SACRUM; SKULL; SPINE; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; SURGICAL INFECTION; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; CHORDOMA; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 61449190729     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000341166.09107.47     Document Type: Article

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