Thursday, October 3, 2013

Multi-Session Radiosurgery of Benign Intracranial Tumors

Multi-Session Radiosurgery of Benign Intracranial Tumors
Neurosurgery Clinics of North America

Multi-session stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) enables a high dose per fraction to be delivered to the tumor bed with rapid dose falloff that allows for sparing of critical structures, resulting in less radiation-associated toxicity. In this article, the authors review the basic concepts and techniques of multi-session SRS, indications for this technique, outcomes from single-session and multi-session SRS using 3 commonly treated benign intracranial tumors (meningiomas, vestibular schwannomas, pituitary adenomas), and discuss why multi-session SRS is an attractive approach for the treatment of these tumors.

Original Article: http://www.neurosurgery.theclinics.com/article/S1042-3680(13)00059-4/abstract?rss=yes

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