Purpose Primarily, gamma knife centers are predominant in publishing results on arteriovenous malformations (AVM) treatments including reports on risk profile. However, many patients are treated using a linear accelerator—most of these at smaller centers. Because this setting is different from a large...
In addition, radiotherapy and temozolomide are the standard glioblastoma treatments [52], and RIMs are often similarly treated. Unfortunately, these treatments are not sufficiently effective for longer survival in almost all patients with RIMs.
3.3. Radical treatments Where radiotherapy is being delivered for cure, there may be no reasonable alternative to proceeding with treatment at the earliest opportunity. If disease biology allows for a delay in treatment (e.g. in the cases of hormonally responsive breast and prostate cancers) then...
Jena, Germany) for cell inactivation in vitro was determined for irradiation in a tumour-bed phantom. Irradiation at a distance of 8 mm from the surface of a 4 cm spherical tumour-bed applicator showed significantly increased RBE values relative to the reference radiation of 6MV X-rays [13]....
Intraoperative radiotherapy differs from conventional, fractionated radiotherapy in several aspects that may influence its biological effect. The radiation quality influences the relative biologic effectiveness (RBE), and the role of the five R’s of rad
Background: Radiation-induced changes (RICs) post-stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) critically influence outcomes in arteriovenous malformation (AVM) treatments. This study aimed to identify predictors of RICs, described the types and severity of RICs, and assessed their impact on patient's ...
58 Despite technical advances in these treatments during recent decades, none has been tested in a controlled study. A recent systematic meta-analysis of published (2000–2011) treatment data on 13,698 AVM patients (including 46,314 patient-years of follow-up) suggests interventional AVM therapy ...
This knowledge will eventually help to optimize radiosurgical treatments in AVM patients.doi:10.1007/s00066-004-1266-6Sabine LevegrünHolger HofMarco EssigWolfgang SchlegelJürgen DebusUrban & VogelStrahlentherapie Und OnkologieLevegrun S, Hof H, Essig M, Schlegel W, Debus J. Radiation- induced ...