Metastatic brain tumors: Lung cancer

Progress in Neurological Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue , 2009, Pages 142-153

  Serizawa, Toru ^a  

^a Gamma Knife House   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOSURGERY; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 61549087559     PISSN: 00796492     EISSN: 16623924     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000163397     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Arriagada R, Le Chevalier T, Borie F, et al: Prophy -lactic cranial irradiation for patients with small-cell lung cancer in complete remission. J Nat Cancer Inst 1995;87:183-190.
2. Kondziolka D, Patel A, Lunsford LD, et al: Stere -otactic radiosurgery plus whole brain radiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone for patients with multiple brain metastases. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1999; 45:427-737.
3. Serizawa T, Iuchi T, Ono J, et al: Gamma knife treatment for multiple metastatic brain tumors compa -red with whole-Brain radiation therapy. J Neurosurg 2000;93(suppl 3):32-36. (Pubitemid 32799542)
4. Serizawa T, Ono J, Odaki M, et al: Differentiation bet ween tumor recurrence and radiation injury after gamma knife radiosurgery for metastatic brain tumors: Value of serial thallium-201 chloride SPECT (Japa -Nese with English abstract). Jpn J Neurosurg (Tokyo) 2001;10:726-732. (Pubitemid 33035355)
5. Serizawa T, Ono J, Iuchi T, et al: Gamma knife radiosurgery for metastatic brain tumors from lung cancer: Comparison between small cell cancer and non-Small cell cancer. J Neurosurg 2002;97(suppl 5): 484-488. (Pubitemid 35424331)
6. Sneed PK, Lamborn KR, Forstner JM, et al: Radio -Surgery for brain metastases: Is whole brain radiotherapy necessary? Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1999; 43:549-558. (Pubitemid 29107174)
7. Sneed PK, Suh JH, Goetsch SJ, et al: F multi-institutional review of radiosurgery alone vs. radiosurgery with whole brain radiotherapy as the initial management of brain metastases. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2002;53:519-526. (Pubitemid 34626488)
8. Yang CC, Ting J, Wu X, et al: Dose volume histogram analysis of the gamma knife radiosurgery treating twenty-five metastatic intracranial tumors. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 1998;70:41-49.
9. Yamamoto M, Ide M, Nishio S, et al: Gamma knife radiosurgery for numerous brain metastases: Is this a safe treatment? Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2002;53:1279-1283. (Pubitemid 34787865)