Gamma knife radiosurgery of other brain metastases

Progress in Neurological Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue , 2012, Pages 190-200

  Kondziolka, Douglas ^a   Niranjan, Ajay ^a   Kano, Hideyuki ^a   Flickinger, John C ^a   Lunsford, L Dade ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; SARCOMA;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; ENDOCRINE GLAND NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; RADIOSURGERY; SARCOMA;

EID: 84860819071     PISSN: 00796492     EISSN: 16623924     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000331192     Document Type: Article

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