Transient Tumor Volume Increase in Vestibular Schwannomas After Radiotherapy
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Tissue changes after radiosurgery for vestibular schwannomas.
The specific effects of radiosurgery on brain tumor tissue are not well understood. We review several approaches that have been used to address this issue. Correlating the radiobiology of radiosurgery with the radioclinical outcome may help to understand these tissue changes. In vivo imaging investigations are usually performed with MRI, but the use of functional and metabolic imaging, such MR ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cureus
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2168-8184
DOI: 10.7759/cureus.70