Feasibility, safety, and outcome of frameless image-guided robotic radiosurgery for brain metastases

Journal of Neuro-Oncology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 267-274

  Muacevic, Alexander ^a   Kufeld, Markus ^a   Wowra, Berndt ^a   Kreth, Friedrich Wilhelm ^b   Tonn, Jörg Christian ^b  

^a Cyberknife Center Munich Grosshadern   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Cyberknife; Frameless radiosurgery; Radiosurgery; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SAFETY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROBOTICS; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOSURGERY; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950457786     PISSN: 0167594X     EISSN: 15737373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11060-009-0023-1     Document Type: Article

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