Gamma Knife surgery for the treatment of 5 to 15 metastases to the brain

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1250-1257

  Salvetti, David J ^a   Nagaraja, Tara G ^a   McNeill, Ian T ^a   Xu, Zhiyuan ^a   Sheehan, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain metastasis; Gamma Knife surgery; Multiple metastases; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84878691202     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2013.2.JNS121213     Document Type: Article

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