Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Benign Tumors With Symptoms From Brainstem Compression

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 988-995

  Nakaya, Kotaro ^a,b   Niranjan, Ajay ^a   Kondziolka, Douglas ^a   Kano, Hideyuki ^a   Khan, Aftab A ^a   Nettel, Barbara ^a   Koebbe, Christopher ^a   Pirris, Stephen ^a   Flickinger, John C ^a   Lunsford, L Dade ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Benign tumor; Brainstem compression; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

BENIGN TUMOR; BRAINSTEM; FOUR-GROUP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; MENINGIOMAS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; NEURO-IMAGING; RADIOSURGERY; TUMOR CONTROL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUMES; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL; VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMA;

RADIOTHERAPY;

TUMORS;

CARBAMAZEPINE; GABAPENTIN; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; BRAINSTEM COMPRESSION; CANCER CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE DISORDER; FACE PAIN; FACE WEAKNESS; FACIAL NERVE DISEASE; FACIAL NUMBNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GROWTH REGULATION; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SYMPTOM; THERAPY EFFECT; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN STEM; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; RADIOSURGERY; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953620184     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.06.089     Document Type: Article

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