Gamma knife radiosurgery for brain metastases of non-lung cancer origin: Focusing on multiple brain lesions

Progress in Neurological Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue , 2009, Pages 154-169

  Yamamoto, Masaaki ^a   Barfod, Bierta E ^a   Urakawa, Yoichi ^a  

^a Katsuta Hospital Mito GammaHouse   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR; CASE REPORT; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROGENITAL TRACT TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROGENITAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61549104187     PISSN: 00796492     EISSN: 16623924     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000163413     Document Type: Article

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