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Open AccessVascular compactness of unruptured brain arteriovenous malformation predicts risk of hemorrhage after stereotactic radiosurgery
The aim of the study was to investigate whether morphology (i.e. compact/diffuse) of brain arteriovenous malformations (bAVMs) correlates with the incidence of hemorrhagic events in patients receiving Stereota...
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Improved survival and intracranial tumor control of EGFR-mutated NSCLC patients with newly developed brain metastases following stereotactic radiosurgery and EGFR-TKI: a large retrospective cohort study and meta-analyses
To examine the differential effects of SRS and TKI on EGFR-mutated NSCLC patients with brain metastases (BMs) and outcomes following continuation of the same TKI agent in case of new BMs.
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Stereotactic radiosurgery for pituitary and cavernous sinus metastases
Metastases extending to the pituitary gland and cavernous sinus are extremely rare; however, advances in neuroimaging have increased the reported incidence. Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) affords the precise ...
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Natural history of lung squamous cell brain metastases in patients treated with radiosurgery: a thirty-year experience at a tertiary medical center
In this study we report our 30-year experience in stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) treatment of lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) brain metastases (BMs). It will serve to provide detailed longitudinal outcome...
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Leukoencephalopathy in patients with brain metastases who received radiosurgery with or without whole brain radiotherapy
Whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT) for brain metastases (BMs) is a common cause of radiation-induced leukoencephalopathy; however the safety of alternative stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) remains unclear. Th...
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EGFR mutant status and tyrosine-kinase inhibitors affect the GKRS outcomes for NSCLC brain metastases
Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) is the first-line treatment for EGFR-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC); however, its applicability to patients with wild-type NSCLC remains an issue of contention. T...
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Stereotactic gamma knife radiosurgery for orbital cavernous hemangioma: clinical outcome and visual function protection
Although rare, orbital cavernous hemangioma (OCH) is the most common benign orbital neoplasm in adults and may cause vision disturbance or loss due to optic nerve compression. The conventional treatment is sur...
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Repeated gamma knife radiosurgery enables longer tumor control in cases of highly-recurrent intracranial ependymoma
Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is a potential re-irradiation treatment for recurrent intracranial ependymoma after prior radiation therapy. The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy and safety of ...
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Radiomics as prognostic factor in brain metastases treated with Gamma Knife radiosurgery
Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKRS) is a non-invasive procedure for the treatment of brain metastases. This study sought to determine whether radiomic features of brain metastases derived from pre-GKRS magnetic re...
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Open AccessGamma Knife radiosurgery for cerebral cavernous malformation
This is a retrospective study examining the efficacy and safety of Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKS) in treating patients with cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs). Between 1993 and 2018, 261 patients with 331...
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Gamma knife radiosurgery for the treatment of cavernous sinus meningiomas: post-treatment long-term clinical outcomes, complications, and volume changes
To evaluate the outcomes of patients who underwent Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKRS) for the treatment of cavernous sinus (CS) meningiomas.
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Empirical versus progression-guided stereotactic radiosurgery for non-functional pituitary macroadenomas after subtotal resection
There is a lack of consensus regarding whether if residual non-functional macroadenomas (NFM) should undergo empirical stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) or be monitored until tumor progression before SRS treatme...
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Stereotactic radiosurgery for hypervascular intracranial tumors
To evaluate the safety and efficacy of SRS treatment of central neurocytomas (CNCs), cavernous sinus hemangiomas (CSHs), and glomus tumors (GTs); and to compare upfront stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and adju...
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The timing of stereotactic radiosurgery for medically refractory trigeminal neuralgia: the evidence from diffusion tractography images
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a novel MRI technique that enables noninvasive evaluation of microstructural alterations in white matter of brain. Initially, DTI was used in intra- or inter-hemispheric assoc...
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Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for the Management of Intracranial Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas
Background: This report presents our 15-year experience with Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKS) for the treatment of 321 patients with dural arteriovenous fistulas (DAVFs) in different locations.
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Cavernous Sinus Hemangiomas Treated with Gamma Knife Surgery
Cavernous hemangiomas within the cavernous sinus (CS) are a rare group of extra-axial vascular tumors. They share a similar histology with the more common intra-axial cerebral cavernous malformations. However,...
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Gamma Knife radiosurgery as a treatment modality for low-grade pediatric brainstem gliomas: report of two cases
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Delayed microsurgery for vestibular schwannoma after gamma knife radiosurgery
Stereotactic radiosurgery for vestibular schwannomas (VSs) has become popular during the last decade with promising clinical results after long-term follow-up. However, on rare occasions, some cases have neede...
