How many metastases can be treated with radiosurgery?

Progress in Neurological Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue , 2012, Pages 261-272

  Yamamoto, Masaaki ^a   Kawabe, Takuya ^a   Barfod, Bierta E ^a  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSURGERY; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOSURGERY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860821701     PISSN: 00796492     EISSN: 16623924     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000331199     Document Type: Article

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