Surgical treatment of solitary brain metastases

Progress in Neurological Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue , 2012, Pages 74-81

  Gates, Marilyn ^a   Alsaidi, Mohammed ^a   Kalkanis, Steven ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEUROSURGERY; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; SKULL IRRADIATION;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; HUMANS; NEUROSURGERY; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 84860799251     PISSN: 00796492     EISSN: 16623924     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000331178     Document Type: Article

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