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The Role of Stereotactic Radiosurgery in the Management of Primary Brain Tumors

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Combined Modality Therapy of Central Nervous System Tumors

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Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is a sophisticated form of radiotherapy that usually delivers a large single-fraction dose of irradiation to small, well-defined intracranial targets. This is accomplished with a high degree of accuracy (¡À1 mm). Stereotactic guidance is provided by the use of modern imaging modalities, notably computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or cerebral angiography. Noninvasive, bloodless delivery of a tumoricidal dose to a selected intracranial target-volume, with concurrent sparing of adjacent normal tissue, can be accomplished by various modalities, but is generally done by the cross-firing of photon radiation-beams through a precise target point from different angles, based on stereotactic localization with the aforementioned imaging techniques.

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  1. Senior Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, 1441 Eastlake Avenue G34, USA, Los Angeles, CA, 90033

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Huang, D., Chen, J., Yu, C., Petrovich, Z. (2003). The Role of Stereotactic Radiosurgery in the Management of Primary Brain Tumors. In: Petrovich, Z., Brady, L.W., Apuzzo, M.L.J., Bamberg, M. (eds) Combined Modality Therapy of Central Nervous System Tumors. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56411-6_19

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