Stereotactic radiosurgery with and without embolization for intracranial arteriovenous malformations: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Xu, Feng ^a,b   Zhong, Junjie ^c   Ray, Abhishek ^a   Manjila, Sunil ^a   Bambakidis, Nicholas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous malformation; Embolization; Outcome; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; META ANALYSIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROCEDURES; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; RADIOSURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84907308380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2014.6.FOCUS14178     Document Type: Article

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