Stereotactic radiosurgery for metastatic brain tumors: A comprehensive review of complications: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 439-448

  Williams, Brian J ^a   Suki, Dima ^a   Fox, Benjamin D ^a   Pelloski, Christopher E ^b   Maldaun, Marcos V C ^a   Sawaya, Raymond E ^a   Lang, Frederick F ^a   Rao, Ganesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain metastasis; Complication; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER GRADING; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPEECH DISORDER; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; SURGICAL RISK; VISUAL DISORDER; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; DISEASE COURSE; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOSURGERY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOSURGERY; SEIZURES;

EID: 70350518257     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.11.JNS08984     Document Type: Review

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