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Unusual Skull Based Tumors Addressed with Single Dose or Fractionated Shaped Beam Stereotactic Radiation

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Stereotactic radiation is a reasonable approach for a multitude of rare tumors of the skull base. These tumors are infrequently resected completely without substantial morbidity. Examples of such tumors are paragangliomas, recurrent cancer of the nasopharynx, esthesioneuroblastoma, recurrent salivary gland carcinoma, and rhabdomyosarcoma in the orbit. Due to their rarity, there are no large series of tumors treated with shaped beam radiosurgery presented herein.

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    Edward Melian, Vikram Prabhu & Anil Sethi

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    Edward Melian, Douglas Anderson & Vikram Prabhu

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Melian, E., Leonetti, J., Anderson, D., Prabhu, V., Sethi, A. (2011). Unusual Skull Based Tumors Addressed with Single Dose or Fractionated Shaped Beam Stereotactic Radiation. In: De Salles, A., et al. Shaped Beam Radiosurgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11151-8_15

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