Management of brain metastases with stereotactic radiosurgery alone versus whole brain irradiation alone versus both

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  El Gantery, Mahmoud M ^a   El Baky, Hoda M A ^a   El Hossieny, Hesham A ^a   Mahmoud, Mohamed ^a   Youssef, Osama ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Radiotherapy; Stereotaxy; Whole brain irradiation

Indexed keywords

ACUTE TOXICITY; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMARY TUMOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DERMATITIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION NECROSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEIZURE; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; VOMITING; WHOLE BRAIN IRRADIATION; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CANCER STAGING; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSURGERY; SKULL IRRADIATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSURGERY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84901601814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-9-116     Document Type: Article

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