Single brain metastasis: Resection followed by whole-brain irradiation and a boost to the metastatic site compared to whole-brain irradiation plus radiosurgery

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 326-330

  Rades, Dirk ^a   Kueter, Jan Dirk ^a   Meyners, Thekla ^a   Pluemer, Andre ^b   Veninga, Theo ^c   Gliemroth, Jan ^a   Schild, Steven E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c DR BERNARD VERBEETEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Intracerebral control; Local control; Neurosurgical resection; Radiation boost; Radiosurgery; Single brain metastasis; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; RADIATION BOOST; RADIOSURGERY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHOLE BRAIN IRRADIATION;

AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84859424744     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: 18726968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2011.10.042     Document Type: Article

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