Gamma Knife surgery for brain metastases from gastrointestinal cancer: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 423-430

  Da Silva, Arnaldo Neves ^a   Nagayama, Kazuki ^a   Schlesinger, David J ^a   Sheehan, Jason P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain metastasis; Gamma Knife surgery; Gastrointestinal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; BRAIN TUMOR; COLON TUMOR; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; RADIOSURGERY; RECTUM TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOSURGERY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70350519905     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.9.JNS08281     Document Type: Article

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