title: Early Malaysian experience on the use of head and neck localizers in the precision radiotherapy of intra and extra cranial sites for first 28 cases.
abstract: Precision Radiotherapy at high doses require a fixed, referable target point. The frame system fulfills the required criteria by making the target point relocatable and fixed within a stereotactic space. Since December 2001, we have treated 28 central and peripheral nervous system lesions using either radiosurgery as a single high dose fraction or fractionated 3-dimensional conformal radiotherapy using a lower dose and a multi-leaf collimator. Various pathological lesions either benign or malignant were treated. Eighty six percent of our treated lesions showed growth restraint, preventing them from causing new symptoms with a median follow-up duration of 20.5 months. However, the true benefit from this technique would require a long-term follow-up to document the progress.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiotherapy & Oncology, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 16150 Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Zamzuri
authors.forename: N R Nik
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Idris
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Mar
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Abdullah
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zakaria
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Biswal
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001165:Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D006801:Humans; D002538:Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000601:surgery*; D008296:Malaysia; D008297:Male; D008579:Meningioma / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D009464:Neuroma, Acoustic / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery; D011446:Prospective Studies; D016634:Radiosurgery; D020266:Radiotherapy, Conformal