Gamma Knife radiosurgery: indications, techniques, and results in 200 patients treated at the Midwest Gamma Knife Center.
During radiosurgery, a single high dose of ionizing radiation is delivered with exquisite precision to a radiographically defined intracranial target. More than 60,000 patients have been treated worldwide since the first Gamma Knife was installed in Stockholm in 1968. Indications include arteriovenous malformation, cerebral metastasis, acoustic neuroma, meningioma, malignant glioma, and trigeminal neuralgia. Two hundred patients have been treated at the Midwest Gamma Knife Center in the first 21 months of operation beginning in September 1994.
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D001165:Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000601:surgery; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D009464:Neuroma, Acoustic / Q000601:surgery; D016634:Radiosurgery / Q000379:methods*