Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Skull-Base Meningiomas

Progress in Neurological Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue , 2009, Pages 96-111

  Takanashi, Masami ^a   Fukuoka, Seiji ^a   Hojyo, Atsufumi ^a   Sasaki, Takehiko ^a   Nakagawara, Jyoji ^a   Nakamura, Hirohiko ^a  

^a Nakamura Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAVERNOUS SINUS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PONS ANGLE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; SKULL BASE TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOSURGERY; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61549109933     PISSN: 00796492     EISSN: 16623924     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000163385     Document Type: Article

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