Open AccessGamma Knife Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Radiation-Induced Meningiomas
Author(s) -
Elizabeth N. Kuhn,
Michael D. Chan,
Stephen B. Tatter,
Thomas L. Ellis
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
stereotactic and functional neurosurgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.798
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1423-0372
pISSN - 1011-6125
DOI - 10.1159/000339636
Subject(s) - radiosurgery , medicine , radiation therapy , meningioma , radiology , cyberknife , gamma knife , nuclear medicine , surgery
Radiation-induced meningiomas present a unique clinical dilemma given the fact that patients with these tumors have often received a prior full course of radiotherapy. As such, traditional radiotherapy is limited by lifetime tissue tolerances to radiation, leaving surgery and radiosurgery as attractive treatment options.
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