Stereotactic Interstitial Radiosurgery With the Photon Radiosurgery System (PRS) for Metastatic Brain Tumors: A Prospective Single-Center Clinical Trial

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1392-1400

  Pantazis, Georgios ^a,b   Trippel, Michael ^b   Birg, Walter ^b   Ostertag, Christoph B ^b   Nikkhah, Guido ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Brain tumor; Metastasis; Photon radiosurgery; PRS; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

BRACHYTHERAPY; BRAIN TUMOR; BRAIN TUMORS; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY;

ENZYME INHIBITION; ONCOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTONS; TUMORS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GROWTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEUROIMAGING; PHOTON RADIOSURGERY SYSTEM; PHOTON THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMNESIA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; PHOTONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; REMISSION INDUCTION; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 71649099589     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.01.022     Document Type: Article

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