CyberKnife radiosurgery for brain metastases

Progress in Neurological Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue , 2012, Pages 201-209

  Wowra, Berndt ^a   Muacevic, Alexander ^a   Tonn, Jörg Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN TUMOR; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 84860802284     PISSN: 00796492     EISSN: 16623924     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000331193     Document Type: Article

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