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The treatment of intracranial lesions with stereotactic radiosurgery. 1994

P P Sinha, and S Bloomfield, and G K Smith

Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown.

Stereotactic radiosurgery is a new method of delivering a high dose of megavoltage, ionizing radiation therapy to a localized area in the brain in a single session. A substantial variety of intracranial lesions can be treated with the use of a stereotactic head frame and set up of tertiary collimators on an existing linear accelerator. This state-of-the-art technique has been used since June 1992 at the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University in Morgantown. Radiosurgery treatment has been well tolerated by all 24 patients treated thus far.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D001932	Brain Neoplasms	Neoplasms of the intracranial components of the central nervous system, including the cerebral hemispheres, basal ganglia, hypothalamus, thalamus, brain stem, and cerebellum. Brain neoplasms are subdivided into primary (originating from brain tissue) and secondary (i.e., metastatic) forms. Primary neoplasms are subdivided into benign and malignant forms. In general, brain tumors may also be classified by age of onset, histologic type, or presenting location in the brain.	Brain Cancer,Brain Metastases,Brain Tumors,Cancer of Brain,Malignant Primary Brain Tumors,Neoplasms, Intracranial,Benign Neoplasms, Brain,Brain Neoplasm, Primary,Brain Neoplasms, Benign,Brain Neoplasms, Malignant,Brain Neoplasms, Malignant, Primary,Brain Neoplasms, Primary Malignant,Brain Tumor, Primary,Brain Tumor, Recurrent,Cancer of the Brain,Intracranial Neoplasms,Malignant Neoplasms, Brain,Malignant Primary Brain Neoplasms,Neoplasms, Brain,Neoplasms, Brain, Benign,Neoplasms, Brain, Malignant,Neoplasms, Brain, Primary,Primary Brain Neoplasms,Primary Malignant Brain Neoplasms,Primary Malignant Brain Tumors,Benign Brain Neoplasm,Benign Brain Neoplasms,Benign Neoplasm, Brain,Brain Benign Neoplasm,Brain Benign Neoplasms,Brain Cancers,Brain Malignant Neoplasm,Brain Malignant Neoplasms,Brain Metastase,Brain Neoplasm,Brain Neoplasm, Benign,Brain Neoplasm, Malignant,Brain Neoplasms, Primary,Brain Tumor,Brain Tumors, Recurrent,Cancer, Brain,Intracranial Neoplasm,Malignant Brain Neoplasm,Malignant Brain Neoplasms,Malignant Neoplasm, Brain,Neoplasm, Brain,Neoplasm, Intracranial,Primary Brain Neoplasm,Primary Brain Tumor,Primary Brain Tumors,Recurrent Brain Tumor,Recurrent Brain Tumors,Tumor, Brain
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D016634	Radiosurgery	A radiological stereotactic technique developed for cutting or destroying tissue by high doses of radiation in place of surgical incisions. It was originally developed for neurosurgery on structures in the brain and its use gradually spread to radiation surgery on extracranial structures as well. The usual rigid needles or probes of stereotactic surgery are replaced with beams of ionizing radiation directed toward a target so as to achieve local tissue destruction.	Gamma Knife Radiosurgery,Linear Accelerator Radiosurgery,Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy,Stereotactic Radiosurgery,CyberKnife Radiosurgery,LINAC Radiosurgery,Radiosurgery, Gamma Knife,Radiosurgery, Linear Accelerator,Radiosurgery, Stereotactic,Stereotactic Radiation,Stereotactic Radiation Therapy,CyberKnife Radiosurgeries,Gamma Knife Radiosurgeries,LINAC Radiosurgeries,Linear Accelerator Radiosurgeries,Radiation Therapy, Stereotactic,Radiation, Stereotactic,Radiosurgery, CyberKnife,Radiosurgery, LINAC,Radiotherapy, Stereotactic Body,Stereotactic Body Radiotherapies,Stereotactic Radiation Therapies,Stereotactic Radiations,Stereotactic Radiosurgeries,Therapy, Stereotactic Radiation