Predictors of outcome following Gamma Knife surgery for acromegaly.

Object: Gamma Knife surgery (GKS) is gaining popularity in the treatment of patients with acromegaly after transsphenoidal tumor excision. In this paper, the authors examine the efficacy of GKS and predictors for biochemical remission.

Methods: The authors retrospectively reviewed data spanning the period 1997–2008 in their hospital Gamma Knife statistics database.

Surgical management of primary non-small-cell carcinoma of lung with synchronous solitary brain metastasis: local experience.

Objective: To report the surgical experience in the management of patients with synchronous primary lung cancer and solitary brain metastasis.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Regional hospital, Hong Kong.

Prolonged survival in a subgroup of patients with brain metastases treated by gamma knife surgery.

Object: The authors analyzed the factors involved in determining prolonged survival (> or = 24 months) in patients with brain metastases treated by gamma knife surgery (GKS).

Methods: Between 1995 and 2003, a total of 116 patients underwent 167 GKS procedures for brain metastases. There was no special case selection.