...Andrea Franzini; Piero Picozzi; Zefferino Rossini; Maria Pia Tropeano; Beatrice Claudia Bono; Ali Baram; Pierina Navarria; Federico Pessina Introduction: The treatment of patients with glossopharyngeal neuralgia (GN) refractory to medical therapies is challenging. Gamma knife radiosurgery (GKRS...

.... Stereotactic radiosurgery has emerged as a noninvasive less risky treatment option. To date, there is no clinical series in the literature reporting on this treatment modality. The aim of the study was to determine the efficacy and safety of gamma knife (GK) radiosurgery in the treatment of third ventricular...

...Bo-Han Yao; Liang Wang; Pan-Pan Liu; Ze-Yu Wu; Li-Wei Zhang; Jun-Ting Zhang; Zhen Wu; Shi-Bin Sun; Da Li Introduction: This study aimed to assess the impact of gamma knife radiosurgery on brainstem cavernous malformations (CMs). Methods: A total of 85 patients (35 females; median age 41.0 years...

... radiosurgery targeting the trigeminal nerve and sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) has been used as a less-invasive treatment. The outcomes of this procedure have been described in a few case reports. Objectives: The objective of the study was to report on the effect of Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKRS) in 5 patients...

... plans while optimizing the preservation of normal tissue in multiple BM. Methods: Seventy-nine patients (mean age 62.4, age range 22–85) with a total of 272 BMs were treated by Gamma Knife Radiosurgery. All subjects were treated using a forward planning (FP) technique by an expert neurosurgeon. The new...

...   JW , Choi   JY , Park   YG , Chung   SS . Complications after gamma knife radiosurgery for benign meningiomas . J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry . 2003 ; 74 ( 2 ): 226 . 10.1136/jnnp.74.2.226 . 4. Hopewell   JW , Millar   WT , Ang   KK . Toward improving the therapeutic...

... episodes, and others are of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) profile; some of them are resistant to medical and behavioural treatment. We describe the long-term outcome in a group of these patients, treated with radiofrequency brain lesions or combined stereotactic surgery and Gamma Knife (GK...

...Gregory Bowden; Andrew Faramand; Arka Mallella; Zhishuo Wei; Kevin Patel; Ajay Niranjan; L. Dade Lunsford Background: Meningiomas are the most common benign intracranial tumors. Gamma Knife® stereotactic radiosurgery (GKSRS) has become a preferred management for recurrent or residual meningiomas...

..., number of gamma knife treatments, interval to gamma knife, and margin radiation dose with overall survival. Discussion/Conclusion: This series supports the use of SRS in patients with recurrent supratentorial PNET following multimodal therapy. [email protected] 18 01 2021 26 02...

...Roman Liscak; Josef Vymazal; Tomas Chytka A series of 3 patients (35–60 years old) with bleeding distal aneurysm not associated with AVM who underwent radiosurgery by gamma knife are reported. One isocentre centralized over the aneurysm was used; peripheral dose 24–28.8 Gy was applied. Control...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Brain tumor Gamma knife Radiosurgery Supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumor An 18-year-old right-handed female presented to clinic in June 2009 with complaints of diplopia, headaches, nausea, and exam findings...

... or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Cerebral arteriovenous malformation Complication Gamma knife Hemorrhage Stereotactic radiosurgery Cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are congenital lesions...

... (SRS) is nowadays an established treatment method for brain AVMs, with high obliteration and low complication rates. Here we describe the first report of head extracranial AVMs successfully treated by Gamma Knife (GK) as a retrospective historical cohort. Methods: Over a 9-year period, 2 cases...

... or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Glossopharyngeal neuralgia Gamma knife Stereotactic radiosurgery Repeat stereotactic radiosurgery Recurrence Glossopharyngeal neuralgia (GPN) is a rare facial pain syndrome...

..., in the treatment of brain metastases with Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery (GKRS). Methods: We retrospectively analysed our series of patients with brain metastases who underwent GKRS at the Niguarda Hospital from February 24 to April 24, 2020. Results: We treated 30 patients with 66 brain metastases. A total...

...Geza Mezey; Julian Cahill; Jeremy G. Rowe; John Yianni; Debapriya Bhattacharyya; Lee Walton; Joanne Rodgers; Matthias W.R. Radatz Objective: To evaluate the role of single-session Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery (GK-SRS) in the treatment of vestibular schwannomas (VSs) with volumes of greater...

... of deviations. Methods: Patients ( n = 41) undergoing single-fraction Gamma Knife SRS following surgical resection of brain metastases from 2011 to 2017 were retrospectively reviewed. SRS included the entire contrast-enhancing cavity with heterogeneity in inclusion of the surgical tract and no routine margin...

... presented with a 33-year history of progressively severe TN refractory to medications. Imaging confirmed a solitary CM located at the pontine dorsal root entry zone of cranial nerve 5. Treatment: Stereotactic radiosurgery of the trigeminal nerve was performed using the Leksell gamma knife. A single 4-mm...

... retrospectively analyzed treatment efficacy and identified prognostic factors impacting tumor control and survival in Japanese melanoma patients with brain metastases treated with gamma knife radiosurgery (GKRS). Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 177 patients with 1,500 tumors who...

... of infundibular granular cell tumor: case report and literature review. J Case Rep Med 2013;2:235775. 8. Pollock BE: Comparing radiation therapy and radiosurgery for pituitary adenoma patients. World Neurosurg 2012;78:58–59. 9. Petrovich Z, Yu C, Giannotta SL, Zee CS, Apuzzo ML: Gamma Knife radiosurgery...