Gamma Knife surgery in brain melanomas: Absence of extracranial metastases and tumor volume strongest indicators of prolonged survival

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 75, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 684-691

  Skeie, Bente Sandvei ^a   Skeie, Geir Olve ^a,b   Enger, Per Øyvind ^a,b   Ganz, Jeremy Christopher ^a   Heggdal, Jan Ingeman ^a   Ystevik, Birgit ^a   Hatteland, Signe ^a   Parr, Elisabeth ^a   Pedersen, Paal Henning ^a  

^a HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cerebral metastases; Malignant melanoma; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER SURVIVAL; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; MELANOMA; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CRANIOTOMY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOSURGERY; SURVIVAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959716457     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2010.12.054     Document Type: Review

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