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Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) has been defined as the use of concentrated ionizing radiation delivered to a stereotactically defined point in space [1, 2]. SRS was used to treat patients with arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) as early as the 1970s [1]. As many as 500,000 people in North America have AVMs [3]. With SRS, angiographic cures fall between 60 and 90% [3–5]. A consideration of the radiobiology of SRS will explain why tumors and vascular lesions respond to radiation differently, and why patients with AVMs are ideal candidates for radiosurgery.
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Pruitt, R., Schulder, M. (2018). Radiobiology of Stereotactic Radiosurgery in the Treatment of Arteriovenous Malformations. In: Gandhi, C., Prestigiacomo, C. (eds) Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Neurosurgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65206-1_35
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