Image-Guided Stereotactic Radiosurgery High-Precision, Non-invasive Treatment of Solid Tumors /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Badakhshi, Harun (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Radiotherapy.; Neurosurgery.; Surgical oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Surgical Oncology.

This book provides the reader with a detailed update on the use of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) in patients with lesions of the brain and other parts of the body. The aim is not simply to explain the application of SRS and document its value with reference to the author's own clinical experi...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I: Premises and Context
• Introduction
• Conceptual context
• Methodic remarks
• Radiobiological postulates for radiosurgery
• Current available technologies.-Part II: Radiosurgery for Benign brain lesions
• Vestibular schwannomas
• Meningiomas
• Arteriovenous malformations of the central nervous system
• Pituitary adenomas
• Part III: Radiosurgery for Cancer and its Metastases
• Brain Metastases
• Stereotactic radiosurgery for lung lesions
• Stereotactic radiosurgery for metastatic lesions of the spine
• Stereotactic radiosurgery for liver lesions
• Stereotactic radiosurgery for early-stage prostate cancer
• Future perspectives.