Thirty years' experience with Gamma Knife surgery for metastases to the brain: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 449-457

  Karlsson, Bengt ^a   Hanssens, Patrick ^b   Wolff, Robert ^c   Söderman, Michael ^d   Lindquist, Christer ^e   Beute, Guus ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CPRLab   (Netherlands)

^c Gamma Knife Center   (Germany)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e CROMWELL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain metastasis; Gamma knife; Radiotherapy; Survival management

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOSURGERY; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RADIOSURGERY; RECURRENCE;

EID: 70350520162     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.10.JNS08214     Document Type: Article

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