Gamma Knife Surgery /

This book is a brief review of the fundamentals of Gamma Knife Surgery, a branch of radiosurgery. The first part of the book provides historical and scientific background information on the subject. A middle section consisting of a single chapter describes the experience of Gamma Knife Surgery from...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ganz, Jeremy C.
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Vienna : Springer Vienna, 1997.
Edition:	Second, rev. edition.
Subjects:	Medicine. Radiotherapy. Neurology. Nervous system > Surgery. Oncology. Endoscopic surgery. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Principles of Sterotaxy
Ionising Radiation and its Physical and Chemical Effects on Living Tissue
Biological Effects of Ionising Radiation
Ionising Radiation and Clinical Practice
Development of the Gamma Knife
Radiophysics, Radiobiology and the Gamma Knife
Gamma Knife Radiosurgery: A Patient's Eye View
diverse Clinical aspects
Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations
Acoustic Schwannomas
Gamma Knife Applications in and around the Pituitary Fossa
Meningiomas
Miscellaneous Indications for Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
The Future.