Whole-brain radiotherapy combined with surgery or stereotactic radiotherapy in patients with brain oligometastases: Long-term analysis

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 187, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 421-425

  D'Agostino, Giuseppe Roberto ^a   Autorino, Rosa ^a   Pompucci, Angelo ^a   De Santis, Maria Carmen ^a   Manfrida, Stefania ^a   Di Lella, Giuseppe ^a   Mantini, Giovanna ^a   Frascino, Vincenzo ^a   Chiesa, Silvia ^a   Albanese, Alessio ^a   Dinapoli, Nicola ^a   Azario, Luigi ^a   Fiorentino, Alba ^a   Valentini, Vincenzo ^a   Anile, Carmelo ^a   Balducci, Mario ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Oligometastases; Stereotactic radiotherapy; Surgery; Whole brain radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN OLIGOMETASTASES; BRAIN SURGERY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION NECROSIS; RECTUM CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT PLANNING; WHOLE BRAIN RADIOTHERAPY; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RADIOSURGERY; RECTUM TUMOR; SKULL IRRADIATION;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 80052098709     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-011-2228-4     Document Type: Article

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