Image-guided robotic stereotactic radiosurgery for unresectable liver metastases: Preliminary results

Anticancer Research

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3381-3384

  Ambrosino, Giovanni ^a   Polistina, Francesco ^b   Costantin, Giorgio ^b   Francescon, Paolo ^b   Guglielmi, Rosabianca ^b   Zanco, Pierluigi ^b   Casamassima, Franco ^c   Febbraro, Antonio ^d   Gerunda, Giorgio ^e   Lumachi, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SAN BORTOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; CyberKnife ; Liver metastases; Solid tumours; Stereotactic radiosurgery; Unresectable metastases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; ROBOTICS; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSURGERY; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 68549122646     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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