Usefulness of hyperbaric oxygen in the treatment of radionecrosis and symptomatic brain edema after LINAC radiosurgery;Eficacia del oxígeno hiperbárico en el tratamiento de la radionecrosis y el edema cerebral sintomáticos tras radiocirugía con acelerador lineal

Neurocirugia

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 449-453

  Perez Espejo M A ^a   Garcia Fernandez R ^a   Tobarra Gonzalez B M ^a   Palma Copete, J D ^a   Gonzalez Lopez A ^a   De La Fuente Munoz I ^a   Salinas Ramos, J ^a   Felipe Murcia, M ^a   Martinez Lage J F ^a   Fernandez Perez J ^a   Romero, J M ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

^b Hospital de Caridad   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brain edema; Hyperbaric oxygen; LINAC; Radionecrosis; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIATION NECROSIS; RADIOSURGERY; REMISSION; STEROID THERAPY; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; PONS ANGLE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

AGED; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLOPONTINE ANGLE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PARIETAL LOBE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73949157661     PISSN: 11301473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1130-1473(09)70142-3     Document Type: Article

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