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Building a Radiosurgery Program

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One of the major trends in medicine over the past decade is the development of minimally invasive techniques for performance of surgical procedures. Patients desire these types of treatments because they are usually associated with less pain and quicker recovery. Insurance companies like these procedures because they are usually associated with short lengths of hospital stay and therefore less cost. Key issues that have had to be established include the development of the needed technologies, identification of appropriate patient profiles and disease processes that lend themselves to these treatments, and education of physicians—both those that treat the disease processes and those who refer patients for such treatments—about the procedures.

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  1. Division of Neurological Surgery, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, Columbia, MO, USA

    N. Scott Litofsky MD, FACS (Associate Professor, Director of Neuro-Oncology, Director of Radiosurgery)

  2. Stereotactic Radiosurgery, Image-Guidance, and Functional Neurosurgery Programs, Division of Neurosurgery, UMASS Memorial Healthcare, Worcester, MA, USA

    Andrea D’Agostino-Demers MSN, EdD, CS, APRN, BC, NP (Clinical Coordinator)

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

    Lawrence S. Chin MD (Professor and Chairman) (Professor and Chairman)

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore, MD, USA

    William F. Regine MD (Professor and Chairman) (Professor and Chairman)

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Litofsky, N.S., D’Agostino-Demers, A. (2008). Building a Radiosurgery Program. In: Chin, L.S., Regine, W.F. (eds) Principles and Practice of Stereotactic Radiosurgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71070-9_70

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