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Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Treatment of Brain Metastases during the COVID-19 Outbreak
Author(s) -
Francesco Maria Crisà,
Filippo Leocata,
Virginia Arienti,
Marco Picano,
Luca Berta,
Hae Song Mainardi,
A.F. Monti,
Francesco Musca,
Sílvia Colombo,
Mauro Palazzi,
Alessandro La Camera
Publication year - 2020
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 - 10.1159/000510271
Subject(s) - medicine , radiosurgery , covid-19 , outbreak , surgery , pediatrics , radiation therapy , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The WHO declared 2019 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) a public health emergency of international concern. The National and Regional Health System has been reorganized, and many oncological patients died during this period or had to interrupt their therapies. This study summarizes a single-centre experience, during the COVID-19 period in Italy, in the treatment of brain metastases with Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery (GKRS).

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