Open AccessTumor Cavity Recurrence after Stereotactic Radiosurgery of Surgically Resected Brain Metastases: Implication of Deviations from Contouring Guidelines
Author(s) -
D. McDermott,
Joshua Hack,
Christoper P. Cifarelli,
John A. Vargo
Publication year - 2019
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 - 10.1159/000496156
Subject(s) - medicine , radiosurgery , contouring , nuclear medicine , surgery , radiation therapy , engineering drawing , engineering
Significant heterogeneity exists in target volumes for postoperative stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for brain metastases. A set of contouring guidelines was recently published, and we investigated the impact of deviations.