Outcomes and cost-effectiveness of gamma knife radiosurgery and whole brain radiotherapy for multiple metastatic brain tumors

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 630-634

  Lee, Wen Yuen ^a   Cho, Der Yang ^a   Lee, Han Chung ^a   Chuang, Hao Che ^a   Chen, Chun Chung ^a   Liu, Jun Lin ^a   Yang, Shih Neng ^a   Liang, Ji An ^a   Ho, Li Hwei ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Gamma knife radiosurgery; Karnofsky performance scale; Metastatic brain tumors; Quality adjusted life year; Recursive partitioning analysis; Whole brain radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 62549160331     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2008.06.021     Document Type: Article

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