Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
Gamma knife radiosurgery (GKRS) for pineal region tumors: a study of 147 cases
... empiric radiosurgery [14, 15] for reducing the cost of treatment and the need for ...that gamma knife radiosurgery (GKRS) has high efficacy and low morbidity [16], and thus has the potential ...
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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 ...
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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 ...underwent gamma knife radiosurgery (GKRS) at our institute for cerebral AVM between 2006 and ...
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Long term effects of Gamma knife Radiosurgery for treatment of cerebral arteriovenous malformations
... The Gamma Knife Radiosurgery (GKR) is an established management option for Cere- bral Arteriovenous ...of radiosurgery for arteriovenous malformations are the com- plete obliteration of nidus ...
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<p>Gamma Knife Radiosurgery For Brain Vascular Malformations: Current Evidence And Future Tasks</p>
... Abstract: Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKRS) has long been used for treating brain vascular malformations, including arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), dural arteriovenous fi stulas (DAVFs), and ...
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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
... To our knowledge, there has been no study that examines the use of DSC perfusion-derived PSR, rPH, and rCBV values to differentiate metastatic tumor recurrence and radiation ne- crosis in patients with progressively ...
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Change in Tinnitus after Treatment of Vestibular Schwannoma: Microsurgery vs Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
... Purpose: Tinnitus is a very common symptom of vestibular schwannoma, present in 45 to 80% of patients. We evaluated changes in tinnitus after translabyrinthine mi- crosurgery (TLM) or gamma knife ...
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Gamma Knife radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma: case report and review of the literature
... reported, Gamma Knife radiosurgery, utilizing a marginal dose of 13 Gy and contemporary planning techniques, resulted in tumour control and hearing pres- ervation after ...eotactic ...
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Single photon emission CT in the evaluation of recurrent brain tumor in patients treated with gamma knife radiosurgery or conventional radiation therapy
... or gamma knife radiosurgery (16 patients) and had subsequent contrast- enhanced MR examinations before nuclear medicine ...with gamma knife therapy were 92% and 67%, ...undergone ...
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Postcontrast T1 Mapping for Differential Diagnosis of Recurrence and Radionecrosis after Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Brain Metastasis
... MATERIALS AND METHODS: Between March 2016 and June 2017, fifty-six patients with brain metastases who underwent contrast- enhanced cerebral T1 mapping were recruited for this prospective study. The findings revealed new ...
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The risk of cataractogenesis after gamma knife radiosurgery: a nationwide population based case-control study
... decades, gamma knife radiosurgery (GKRS) has been increasingly used for intracranial le- sions ...seven gamma knife units and about 1100 patients undergo GKRS every ...
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Long-Term Survival after Gamma Knife Radiosurgery in a Case of Recurrent Glioblastoma Multiforme: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
... patients. Gamma Knife radiosurgery has been used to treat these tumor recurrences for select cases and has been successful in prolonging the median survival by 8–12 months on average for select ...
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Early magnetic resonance image volumetric changes of vestibular schwannoma after Gamma Knife radiosurgery: a prospective study of 18 cases
... after Gamma Knife radiosurgery, except for one who developed mod- erate hydrocephalus after 2 days of treatment and was admitted for 4 days, and hydrocephalus subsided conser- vatively during ...with ...
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Utility of Intravoxel Incoherent Motion MR Imaging for Distinguishing Recurrent Metastatic Tumor from Treatment Effect following Gamma Knife Radiosurgery: Initial Experience
... In our clinical experience, the major advantage of IVIM MR imaging is that because it allows the simultaneous acquisition of diffusion and perfusion parameters, it can provide both measures within corresponding solid ...
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Serial Proton MR Spectroscopic Imaging of Recurrent Malignant Gliomas after Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
... to gamma knife radiosurgery will be required to statistically validate the observations made ...to gamma knife ra- ...ma knife radiosurgery as a boost to treatment with ...
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Outcomes of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery in Patients With Parasagittal Meningioma
... According to our investigations, 5(8.2%) patients died. Of these patients, one was a woman, and four were men. Two of them had a history of operation; one pa- tient experienced three operations, and another one underwent ...
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Stereotactic radiosurgery XX: ocular neuromyotonia in association with gamma knife radiosurgery
... Ocular neuromyotonia (ONM) is a rare diagnosis made clinically by the presence of intermittent diplopia after prolonged horizontal gaze in one direction. If present, the phenomenon usually lasts from seconds to minutes ...
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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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Gamma knife radiosurgery for essential tremor: A Case report and review of the literature
... A study done to compare GK thalamotomy, RF thala- motomy, and DBS by Niranjan, et al. [5] displayed confi- dence in all three methods, with respect to tremor control rates. DBS systems were implanted in 11 patients, who ...
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Gamma knife radiosurgery for movement disorders: a concise review of the literature
... The goal of this report is to provide a concise review of the literature on the efficacy and potential side-effects of GK radiosurgery in the treatment of patients with move- ment disorders. As seen in the ...
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