Gamma Knife Surgery
This book attempts to combine many different threads into a comprehensible whole. Since the subject is the Gamma Knife and the author is a neurosurgeon, the field of clinical interest is restricted to intracranial pathology. The discipline of radiosurgery now applies to patients who may reasonably b...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Vienna
Springer Vienna
1997, 1997
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. 1997 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I. Introduction and Basic Principles
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Principles of Stereotaxy
- 3. Ionising Radiation and its Physical and Chemical Effects on Living Tissue
- 4. Biological Effects of Ionising Radiation
- 5. Ionising Radiation and Clinical Practice
- 6. Development of the Gamma Knife
- 7. Radiophysics, Radiobiology and the Gamma Knife
- II. The Patient’s Experience
- 8. Gamma Knife Radiosurgery: A Patient’s Eye View
- III. Clinical Aspects
- 9. Diverse Clinical Aspects
- 10. Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations
- 11. Acoustic Schwannomas
- 12. Gamma Knife Applications in and around the Pituitary Fossa
- 13. Meningiomas
- 14. Miscellaneous Indications for Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
- 15. The Future
- References