Clinical practice of image-guided spine radiosurgery - results from an international research consortium

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Guckenberger, Matthias ^a   Sweeney, Reinhart A ^a   Flickinger, John C ^b,c   Gerszten, Peter C ^b   Kersh, Ronald ^d,e   Sheehan, Jason ^f   Sahgal, Arjun ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e Riverside Medical Center   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^g PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Methods; Questionnaire; Spine radiosurgery; Vertebral metastases

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROSURGEON; PATIENT SAFETY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIOSURGERY; SPINE RADIOSURGERY; SPINE SURGERY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; METHODOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; STANDARD;

HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOSURGERY; SPINAL CORD; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 83455213508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-6-172     Document Type: Article

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