Radiosurgical techniques for the treatment of brain neoplasms: A short review

Radiotherapy has long been used as an adjunct to neurosurgery for the treatment of malignant and benign intracranial tumors and other intracranial lesions. Intracranial tumors can be irradiated in three different ways: I) fractional radiotherapy, II) stereotactic radiotherapy and III) stereotactic r...

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Autores principales: Velnar, Tomaz, Bosnjak, Roman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6305523/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30596035
http://dx.doi.org/10.5662/wjm.v8.i4.51
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description Radiotherapy has long been used as an adjunct to neurosurgery for the treatment of malignant and benign intracranial tumors and other intracranial lesions. Intracranial tumors can be irradiated in three different ways: I) fractional radiotherapy, II) stereotactic radiotherapy and III) stereotactic radiosurgery. The third is most often by means of a gamma knife or a specially designed linear accelerator. Additionally, radiosurgery is increasingly used in combination with systemic therapy to treat metastases.
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spelling pubmed-63055232018-12-28 Radiosurgical techniques for the treatment of brain neoplasms: A short review Velnar, Tomaz Bosnjak, Roman World J Methodol Minireviews Radiotherapy has long been used as an adjunct to neurosurgery for the treatment of malignant and benign intracranial tumors and other intracranial lesions. Intracranial tumors can be irradiated in three different ways: I) fractional radiotherapy, II) stereotactic radiotherapy and III) stereotactic radiosurgery. The third is most often by means of a gamma knife or a specially designed linear accelerator. Additionally, radiosurgery is increasingly used in combination with systemic therapy to treat metastases. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2018-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6305523/ /pubmed/30596035 http://dx.doi.org/10.5662/wjm.v8.i4.51 Text en ©The Author(s) 2018. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial.
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title_full Radiosurgical techniques for the treatment of brain neoplasms: A short review
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