Neurosurgical management of metastases in the central nervous system

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 79-86

  Claus, Elizabeth B ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE PAIN; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM METASTASIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; KYPHOPLASTY; NEUROSURGERY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT INDICATION;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856605384     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2011.179     Document Type: Review

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