Neoplastic Transformation After Radiosurgery or Radiotherapy: Risk and Realities

Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 717-729

  Niranjan, Ajay ^a,b   Kondziolka, Douglas ^a,b   Lunsford, L Dade ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma Knife; Malignant transformation; Radiation therapy; Radiation induced tumor; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MELANOMA; MENINGIOMA; MICROSURGERY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SAFETY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 69949160153     PISSN: 00306665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otc.2009.04.005     Document Type: Review

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