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Serial Follow up MR Imaging after Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Vestibular Schwannoma
... Gamma knife radiosurgery was first used to treat vestibular schwannomas in 1969 (1). The relatively high peripheral radiation dose of about 20 Gy achieved a good rate of tumor control with a low rate of ...
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Serial Proton MR Spectroscopic Imaging of Recurrent Malignant Gliomas after Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
... The ratios of the normalized follow-up metabolite levels to the baseline normalized metabolite levels (hereafter referred to as D Metabolite) were then calculated on a voxel-by-voxel ba- sis. Differences could have been ...
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Proof of Concept in a Case Study of Glioblastoma Multiforme Successfully Treated with IV Quercetin in Combination with Leading Edge Gamma Knife and Standard Treatments
... Boost Gamma Knife “Leading-Edge” Radiosurgery to FLAIR MRI-Defined Tumor Migration Pathways in 174 Patients with Glioblastoma Multiforme: A 15-Year Assessment of a Novel ...
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Alexandrov, Rumen (2004): Radiochirurgie mit dem Gamma Knife-System zur Sekundärtherapie der persistierenden Akromegalie. Dissertation, LMU München: Medizinische Fakultät
... Für die Zieleinrichtung wird der stereotaktische Rahmen in Lokalanästhesie am Schädel des Patienten fixiert 104 . Als nächster Schritt folgt die Darstellung und die Lokalisation der zu behandelnden Läsion in der ...
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MASEP gamma knife radiosurgery for secretory pituitary adenomas: experience in 347 consecutive cases
... As most patients with prolactinomas can be adequately controlled by medical treatment. Gamma knife radiosur- gery has been used by us in only few patients. It may be a suitable alternative in patients who ...
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Focal Enhancement of Cranial Nerve V after Radiosurgery with the Leksell Gamma Knife: Experience in 15 Patients with Medically Refractory Trigeminal Neuralgia
... after gamma knife radiosurgery in a proportion of ...the gamma knife target ...failed gamma knife radiosurgery of medically refractory trigeminal ...
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Stereotactic radiosurgery XX: ocular neuromyotonia in association with gamma knife radiosurgery
... We report three patients who developed symptoms and signs of ocular neuromyotonia (ONM) 3–6 months after receiving gamma knife radiosurgery (GKS) for functioning pituitary tumours. All three patients were ...
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Impact on cognitive functions following gamma knife radiosurgery for cerebral arteriovenous malformations.
... Background: Radiosurgery is an alternative to surgical resection of arteriovenous malformation (AVM). Very few studies have addressed the concern of radiation injury to the brain and its attendant adverse effects on ...
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The safety and efficacy of gamma knife surgery in management of glomus jugulare tumor
... Between 2004 and 2008, 13 cases with glomus jagulare tumors were treated using gamma knife surgery at the International Medical Center, Cairo, Egypt. The follow- up period ranged from 12 to 48 months. All ...
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<p>Gamma Knife Radiosurgery For Brain Vascular Malformations: Current Evidence And Future Tasks</p>
... eral gamma knife centers have reported comparison stu- dies between “ ARUBA-eligible patients ” and the medically-managed patients in the ARUBA study, and obtained more favorable outcomes in GKRS cohorts in ...
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Distinguishing Recurrent Intra Axial Metastatic Tumor from Radiation Necrosis Following Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Using Dynamic Susceptibility Weighted Contrast Enhanced Perfusion MR Imaging
... underwent gamma knife radiosurgery for metastatic lesions of the brain and subsequently developed enlarging regions of enhancement within the radiation ...
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Stereotaxic gamma knife surgery in treatment of critically located pilocytic astrocytoma: preliminary result
... our Gamma Knife Center in October 2003; 6 months post second stereotactic aspira- tion with right side weakness more in the upper limb, with right facial palsy, and ...
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Long term effects of Gamma knife Radiosurgery for treatment of cerebral arteriovenous malformations
... The neurological symptoms induced by the AVM was detected prior to gamma knife treatment in 65 patients (79.26%). In 42 pa- tients (51.2%), these neurological symptoms improved significantly after GKS ...
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Gamma Knife radiosurgery for locally recurrent choroidal melanoma following plaque radiotherapy
... Cyber Knife, Gamma Knife, or linear accelerator as well as charged particles (protons) have been used successfully in the management of choroidal ...
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Schonenbach, Sabine (2006): Klinische Ergebnisse nach stereotaktischer Präzisionsbestrahlung großer uvealer Melanome mit dem Gamma-Knife. Dissertation, LMU München: Medizinische Fakultät
... dem Gamma-Knife-Zentrum München stereotaktisch behandelt, nachdem sie ihre Einverständnis zu diesem neuen Therapieansatz ...dem Gamma-Knife in eine engmaschige Tumornachsorge ...nach ...
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A Novel Method to Verify Gamma Knife Radioactive Source Count
... Regulation compliance and radioactive source security has become an integral process for many healthcare centers. We propose a low cost and easy to use film method that accurately assesses source count regardless of ...
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Gamma knife radiosurgery for the treatment of uveal melanoma and uveal metastases
... All included patients underwent GKR according to the following technique: retrobulbar block was performed. The Leksell stereotactic head frame was applied using local anesthetic and superficial fixation to the outer ...
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Gamma knife radiosurgery for movement disorders: a concise review of the literature
... noncompliant, those who are of advanced age, and those who elect to not proceed with neurosurgery. Despite the fact that radiofrequency (RF) neurosurgical lesioning has shown success in many patients, there is still a ...
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An intermediate term benefits and complications of gamma knife surgery in management of glomus jugulare tumor
... underwent gamma knife surgery (GKS) for recur- rent, residual, or unrespectable tumors at the Inter- national Medical Center (IMC), Cairo, Egypt, from beginning of 2005 and end of ...post gamma ...
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Cerebellar infarction after gamma knife radiosurgery of a vestibular schwannoma
... A 77-year-old woman with hypertension and hypercholesterolemia developed vertigo, gait ataxia, and deafness in her right ear. A vestibular schwannoma was diagnosed, which was treated with gamma knife ...
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