Role of gamma knife radiosurgery in neurosurgery: Past and future perspectives

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 737-748

  Koga, Tomoyuki ^a   Shin, Masahiro ^a   Saito, Nobuhito ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gamma knife; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

21 AMINOSTEROID; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; BEVACIZUMAB; METALLOPORPHYRIN; PENTOXIFYLLINE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HAIR LOSS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MENINGIOMA; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT SAFETY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIATION NECROSIS; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FORECASTING; HUMANS; NEUROSURGERY; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 77958126666     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.50.737     Document Type: Article

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