Retreatment of trigeminal neuralgia with Gamma Knife radiosurgery: Is there an appropriate cumulative dose? Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 359-364

  Dvorak, Tomas ^a   Finn, Arkadiy ^a   Price, Lori Lyn ^a   Mignano, John E ^a   Fitzek, Markus M ^a   Wu, Julian K ^a   Yao, Kevin C ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma Knife surgery; Radiation dose; Retreatment; Trigeminal neuralgia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; DOSE RESPONSE; DYSESTHESIA; FACE PAIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PEER REVIEW; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETREATMENT; TASTE DISORDER; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; WEAKNESS;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOSURGERY; RECURRENCE; RETREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA;

EID: 68849112547     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.11.JNS08770     Document Type: Article

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