Treatment of giant cerebral arteriovenous malformation: Hypofractionated stereotactic radiation as the first stage

Neurosurgery

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1253-1259

  Xiao, Furen ^a   Gorgulho, Alessandra A ^a   Lin, Chun Shu ^b   Chen, Chien Hua ^b   Agazaryan, Nzhde ^a   Viñuela, Fernado ^a   Selch, Michael T ^a   De Salles, Antonio A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Intracranial arteriovenous malformations; Radiosurgery; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SEIZURE; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; STROKE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958457245     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3181efbaef     Document Type: Article

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