Stereotactic radiosurgery using the Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion unit in the management of patients with 10 or more brain metastases: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 237-245

  Grandhi, Ramesh ^a   Kondziolka, Douglas ^a,b   Panczykowski, David ^a   Monaco III, Edward A ^a   Kano, Hideyuki ^a   Niranjan, Ajay ^a   Flickinger, John C ^a   Lunsford, L Dade ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain metastasis; Gamma Knife surgery; Morbidity; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOSURGERY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84864568068     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.4.JNS11870     Document Type: Article

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