...Gazanfar Rahmathulla; Pablo F. Recinos; Jose E. Valerio; Sam Chao; Gene H. Barnett Whole-brain radiotherapy and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) play a central role in the treatment of metastatic brain tumors. Radiation necrosis occurs in 5% of patients and can be very difficult to treat...

... with radiation necrosis and peritumoral edema. The results of histologic examination are discussed. Case Description: Two cases of parasagittal meningioma received GKS. Symptomatic peritumoral edema developed 3–4 months after GKS. Both of them underwent surgical resection of their tumor afterwards. Histologic...

...) and 4% morbidity associated with the procedure. Pathology showed that half of the adult brainstem intrinsic lesions were gliomas, 10% were metastases, and the remainder were hematomas, vascular malformations, lymphomas, demyelination, cysts, radiation necrosis, abscesses, vasculitis, infarcts, leukemia...

...Charles A. Valéry; Philippe Cornu; Georges Noël; Michel Duyme; Gilbert Boisserie; Laurent J. Sakka; Jean-Jacques Mazeron; Rémy van Effenterre The aim of this study was to determine if the risk of radiation necrosis after radiosurgery is related to the presence of normal tissue included...

...Todd P. Thompson; L. Dade Lunsford; Douglas Kondziolka With the recent approval of reimbursement for positron emission tomography (PET), it has become important to clarify the utility of this diagnostic study. We evaluated the utility of PET to distinguish radiation necrosis from recurrent tumor...

... Stereotact Funct Neurosurg Yamamoto/Ide/Jimbo/Hamazaki/Ban 1998;70(suppl 1):166 178 Arteriovenous malformation Radiosurgery Gamma Knife Complication Radiation necrosis Cyst formation 1998 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may...

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...John C. Flickinger; L. Dade Lunsford; Douglas Kondziolka Dose-volume effects are very important in radiosurgery. Functional radiosurgery illustrates brain tolerance at the extremes of small volumes and high radiation doses. The risks of radiation necrosis from radiosurgery of arteriovenous...