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BL
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| Record Number
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594576
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b423795
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| Title & Author
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Current and future management of brain metastasis /\ volume editors, Dong Gyu Kim, L. Dade Lunsford
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| Publication Statement
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Basel ;New York :: Karger,, 2012
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| Series Statement
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Progress in neurological surgery,; v. 25
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| Page. NO
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xi, 314 p. :: ill. (some col.) ;; 26 cm
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| ISBN
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9783805596176 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 3805596170 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 9783805596183 (e-ISBN)
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: 3805596189 (e-ISBN)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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| Contents
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Understanding brain metastasis -- Historical background -- Epidemiology of central nervous system metastases -- Histopathology of brain metastases after radiosurgery -- Radiobiological principles: their application to gamma knife therapy -- General management -- Imaging diagnosis of brain metastasis -- Surgical treatment of solitary brain metastases -- Whole-brain radiation therapy of brain metastasis -- Advances in radiation therapy of brain metastasis -- Role of chemotherapy on brain metastasis -- Radiosurgery for brain metastases -- Stereotactic radiosurgery for patients with metastatic brain tumors: development of a consensus radiosurgery guideline recommendation -- Radiosurgery -- Radiosurgical dose selection for brain metastasis -- Treatment of brain metastasis from lung cancer -- Gamma knife radiosurgery of brain metastasis from breast cancer -- Brain metastasis from renal cell carcinoma -- Stereotactic radiosurgery of brain metastasis from melanoma -- Gamma knife radiosurgery of other brain metastases -- Cyberknife radiosurgery for brain metastases -- Management of adverse radiation effects after radiosurgery -- Radiosurgery after craniotomy -- Combined role of whole-brain radiation therapy and radiosurgery for the treatment of brain metastasis -- Modern radiosurgery equipment for treating brain metastases -- Difficult cases -- Stereotactic radiosurgery for large brain metastases -- How many metastases can be treated with radiosurgery? -- Management of recurrent brain metastasis after radiosurgery -- Future perspectives of brain metastasis treatment -- Future perspectives of brain metastasis management
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| Subject
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Brain metastasis
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Brain-- Tumors-- Treatment
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Brain Neoplasms-- secondary
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Brain Neoplasms-- therapy
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Neoplasm Metastasis-- therapy
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Radiosurgery
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| Dewey Classification
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616.99/481
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| LC Classification
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RC280.B7C87 2012
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| NLM classification
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W1PR673 v.25 2012
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WL 358
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| Added Entry
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Kim, Dong Gyu
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Lunsford, L. Dade
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