Jason Sheehan,M Beatriz Lopes,Edward Laws
Jason Sheehan
Pituitary adenomas represent approximately 10-20% of all primary brain tumors. Surgical resection is the mainstay of treatment for most pituitary adenomas. At times, complete surgical resection may be impossible or the adenoma may recur. Th...
Bruce E Pollock
Bruce E Pollock
Stereotactic radiosurgery has been used to manage patients with pituitary adenomas for over 30 years. Numerous studies have documented that more than 95% of pituitary adenoma patients have either tumor shrinkage or stabilization after radio...
György T Szeifert,Dheerendra Prasad,Toshifumi Kamyrio et al.
György T Szeifert et al.
The aim of this study was to assess the role of Gamma Knife radiosurgery in the complex management of cerebral astrocytomas. Out of a series with more than 1,000 brain tumor cases treated at the Lars Leksell Center for Gamma Knife Surgery, ...
John Y K Lee,Douglas Kondziolka,John C Flickinger et al.
John Y K Lee et al.
Introduction: Meningiomas are common intracranial benign tumors that can be surgically excised. However, their intimate involvement with critical neurovascular structures often prevent their complete resection. Gamma Knif...
Jean Régis,Pierre Hughes Roche,Christine Delsanti et al.
Jean Régis et al.
Within the last 3 decades, microsurgery and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) have become well-established management options for vestibular schwannomas (VSs). Advancement in the management of VSs can be separated into three periods: the micr...
Masaaki Yamamoto
Masaaki Yamamoto
New, not yet widely known concepts pertaining to Gamma Knife (GK) radiosurgery for brain metastases are reviewed. In the author's experience, GK is a safe and effective treatment. Though lesion size is a limitation, high tumor control rates...
Radiosurgical pathology of brain tumors: metastases, schwannomas, meningiomas, astrocytomas, hemangioblastomas [0.03%]
立体定向放射外科治疗脑肿瘤的病理学研究：转移瘤、神经鞘瘤、脑膜瘤、星形细胞瘤及血管母细胞瘤
György T Szeifert,Douglas Kondziolka,Dave S Atteberry et al.
György T Szeifert et al.
Systematic human pathological background to brain tumor radiosurgery explaining biological and pathophysiological effects of focused irradiation barely exists. The goal of this study was to explore histopathological changes evoked by single...
Multicenter Study
Progress in neurological surgery. 2007:20:91-105. DOI:10.1159/000100098 2007
David Wikler,Olivier Coussaert,Frédéric Schoovaerts et al.
David Wikler et al.
Stereotactic radiosurgery treatment principles and irradiation techniques have shown little evolution since its introduction in 1968. Conversely, technology progress linked to computers has produced a major impact on the methods used for tr...
Integration of functional imaging in radiosurgery: the example of PET scan [0.03%]
放射外科手术中的功能影像融合：PET扫描为例
Marc Levivier,Nicolas Massager,David Wikler et al.
Marc Levivier et al.
Radiosurgery relies critically on the imaging modalities that are used for targeting. Leksell Gamma Knife (LGK) radiosurgery presents the highest requirements in terms of imaging accuracy as the treatment is applied in a single high-dose se...
Ajay Niranjan,A H Maitz,Andrew Lunsford et al.
Ajay Niranjan et al.
Radiosurgery is a minimally invasive technique designed to elicit a specific radiobiologic response at the target tissue using focused ionizing radiation delivered in single procedure. Radiosurgery was originally devised to treat intracrani...