Why and how to spare the hippocampus during brain radiotherapy: the developing role of hippocampal avoidance in cranial radiotherapy

The goal of this review is to summarize the rationale for and feasibility of hippocampal sparing techniques during brain irradiation. Radiotherapy is the most effective non-surgical treatment of brain tumors and with the improvement in overall survival for these patients over the last few decades, t...

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Autores principales: Kazda, Tomas, Jancalek, Radim, Pospisil, Petr, Sevela, Ondrej, Prochazka, Tomas, Vrzal, Miroslav, Burkon, Petr, Slavik, Marek, Hynkova, Ludmila, Slampa, Pavel, Laack, Nadia N
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4073517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24935286
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-9-139

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4073517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24935286
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-9-139

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