Gamma Knife surgery of meningiomas located in the posterior fossa: Factors predictive of outcome and remission: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1399-1409

  Starke, Robert M ^a   Nguyen, James H ^a   Rainey, Jessica ^a   Williams, Brian J ^a   Sherman, Jonathan H ^a   Savage, Jesse ^a   Yen, Chun Po ^a   Sheehan, Jason P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma knife; Meningioma; Posterior fossa; Predictor; Radiosurgery; Skull base

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CEREBELLUM TENTORIUM; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLIVUS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PONS ANGLE; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOSURGERY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TUMOR BURDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955659971     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.11.JNS101193     Document Type: Article

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