Radiosurgery for brain metastases.

Neurosurg Clin N Am

Department of Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin 53792, USA.

Published: April 1999

Brain metastases represent the most common intracranial neoplasm, and they have become the most common indication for radiosurgery. The authors present a review summarizing the major issues surrounding the management of brain metastases and an English-language literature review of 21 independent reports, using either Gamma Knife or linear accelerator-based radiosurgery, with over 1700 patients and more than 2700 lesions available for analysis.

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