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Radiosurgery of Acoustic Schwannomas

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Principles and Practice of Stereotactic Radiosurgery

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Acoustic schwannomas are benign tumors of the 8 cranial nerve sheath that can affect function of the fifth, seventh, and eighth cranial nerves as well as compress the brainstem. Careful detailed assessment with long observations times is needed with these slow-growing tumors to detect recurrence/progression or complications whenever observation, surgery, or radiation treatment is used for management. Management choices for these tumors have evolved and been refined considerably since the introduction of radiosurgery. This chapter reviews the use of radiosurgery in the management of acoustic schwannomas and covers background information necessary for understanding the optimal management of patients with these tumors.

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    John C. Flickinger M.D.

  2. Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Hideyuki Kano & L. Dade Lunsford

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, USA

    Lawrence S. Chin

  2. Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    William F. Regine

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Flickinger, J.C., Kano, H., Lunsford, L.D. (2015). Radiosurgery of Acoustic Schwannomas. In: Chin, L., Regine, W. (eds) Principles and Practice of Stereotactic Radiosurgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8363-2_23

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