Gamma knife radiosurgery for malignant tumors
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Gamma knife radiosurgery for malignant tumors.
Between May 1990, and June 1994, 79 patients with malignant tumors were treated radiosurgically using a Leksell gamma unit at Asan Medical Center. Of these patients, 57 were metastatic brain tumor, 12 were glioblastoma multiforme (GM), 4 were primitive neuroectodermal tumor, 3 were malignant germ cell tumor, 2 were recurrent lymphoma, and 1 was adenoid cystic carcinoma of the orbit. Among 57 pa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Korean Medical Science
سال: 1995
ISSN: 1011-8934,1598-6357
DOI: 10.3346/jkms.1995.10.5.379