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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ganz, Jeremy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vienna Springer Vienna 1997, 1997
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