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PITTSBURGH, May 21 – Treating benign brain tumors with gamma knife radiosurgery resulted in long-term tumor control in 95 percent of patients, according to a study by University of Pittsburgh ...

While two advanced radiosurgery approaches -- Gamma Knife and RapidArc® -- offer different strengths, they are equally effective at eradicating cancer in the brain, report researchers. While two ...

Craniopharyngiomas account for 2–5% of all primary brain tumors and 5–10% of pediatric brain tumors. Despite their benign ...

Craniopharyngiomas account for 2–5% of all primary brain tumors and 5–10% of pediatric brain tumors. Despite their benign histology, their location ...

Gamma knife radiosurgery (GKR) is used as an adjuvant therapy in patients with acromegaly if primary surgery fails or is contraindicated. Studies that extensively examine the efficacy and safety of ...

Standard treatment of cerebral alveolar hydatid disease consists of open brain surgery and systemic albendazole. We describe a patient with inoperable cerebral alveolar hydatid cysts on whom gamma ...

Ten cases of osteonecrosis of the jaws following a treatment by diphosphonate within the framework of bone metastasis of breast cancer and multiple myeloma: Experience in summer 2004 of a single ...

Research at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical has shown that Gamma Knife Stereotactic Radiosurgery (GKRS) is an effective treatment for trigeminal neuralgia, a ...

Brain metastases from ovarian cancer (BMFOC) are rare but associated with poor prognosis. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery (GKSRS) in ...

Dose-escalated intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and increased radiation doses to subventricular zones (SVZ) in treatment outcomes of patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). This is an ASCO ...

The nerve disorder trigeminal neuralgia (TN) manifests itself in debilitating paroxysms of facial pain. What causes TN is still a bit of a mystery, but it's commonly attributed to vascular compression ...