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Cyberknife Radiosurgery for Basal Skull Plasmacytoma
Author(s) -
Wong Eric T.,
Lu XingQi,
Devulapalli Janakiram,
Mahadevan Anand
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of neuroimaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1552-6569
pISSN - 1051-2284
DOI - 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2006.00062.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cyberknife , radiosurgery , foramen magnum , radiology , clivus , skull , medullary cavity , nuclear medicine , radiation therapy , surgery , anatomy
The Cyberknife delivers frameless image‐guided stereotactic radiosurgery to intracranial and extracranial tumors. We report our use of Cyberknife radiosurgery on a medullary plasmacytoma in the clivus extending into the foramen magnum. No acute toxicity was seen during or within 24 hours of treatment, and the subject had a complete and durable radiographic response on MRI 12+ months after treatment. To our knowledge, this is a first case of successful Cyberknife radiosurgery of a medullary plasmacytoma.