Radiosurgery for brain metastases

Progress in Neurological Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue , 2012, Pages 115-122

  Kondziolka, Douglas ^a   Flickinger, John C ^a   Lunsford, L Dade ^a  

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RADIOSURGERY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SKULL IRRADIATION;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; HUMANS; RADIOSURGERY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84860813689     PISSN: 00796492     EISSN: 16623924     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000331184     Document Type: Article

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