gamma knife surgerywhole brain radiation therapy.The purpose of this retrospective study was to evaluate results of a local treatment protocol using gamma knife surgery (GKS) for brain metastases without upfront whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT). Results for 521 consecutive patients satisfying the ...
The efficacy and limitations of salvage gamma knife surgery (GKS) have not been thoroughly described. This study evaluated the efficacy of GKS for treating brain metastases associated with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) after whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT) as the first-line radiation therapy. Metho...
Another case is of a large acoustic tumor without useful hearing or ABR. Preceding gamma knife treatment, sufficient volume reduction (75%) and unroofing of the internal auditory meatus (IMA) was performed. As a result, hearing recovered from 96.3 to 43.8 dB in PTA three months after surgery...
We excluded four lost to follow-up, 24 for whom the day of primary cancer diagnosis was not available, 665 with synchronous presentation and 651 with pre-SRS radiotherapy and/or surgery, ultimately studying 2150 patients. Patients were categorized into two classes by iBMV scores, i.e., < ...