Radiotherapy and radiosurgery for benign skull base meningiomas
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Radiotherapy and radiosurgery for benign skull base meningiomas
Meningiomas located in the region of the base of skull are difficult to access. Complex combined surgical approaches are more likely to achieve complete tumor removal, but frequently at a cost of treatment related high morbidity. Local control following subtotal excision of benign meningiomas can be improved with conventional fractionated external beam radiation therapy with a reported 5-year p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Radiation Oncology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1748-717X
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717x-4-42