Gamma knife radiosurgery for larger-volume vestibular schwannomas: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 801-807

  Yang, Huai Che ^a,c   Kano, Hideyuki ^a,b   Awan, Nasir Raza ^a   Lunsford, L Dade ^a,b   Niranjan, Ajay ^a,b   Flickinger, John C ^a   Novotny Jr , Josef ^a,b   Bhatnagar, Jagdish P ^a,b   Kondziolka, Douglas ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Gamma knife; Stereotactic radiosurgery; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CANCER CONTROL; CEREBELLUM INFARCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HEARING; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT DURATION; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FACIAL NERVE DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK MANAGEMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESTIBULAR DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952261362     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.8.JNS10674     Document Type: Article

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