Gamma Knife Neurosurgery in the Management of Intracranial Disorders (eBook)

Practice of Gamma Knife surgery: Concept of robotic Gamma Knife microradiosurgery and results of its clinical application in benign skull base tumors. - Contemporary role of microsurgery, radiosurgery, and stereotactic radiotherapy in management of vestibular schwannomas. - Whether Gamma Knife radiosurgery is really necessary for treatment of patients with vestibular schwannomas? - Do we really still need an open surgery for treatment of patients with vestibular schwannomas? - Stereotactic radiosurgery and hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy for management of vestibular schwannomas: Initial experience with 17 cases - .- What is the role of radiosurgery in management of sellar tumors? - Role of Gamma Knife radiosurgery in management of pituitary adenomas and craniopharyngiomas. - Role of Gamma Knife radiosurgery in multimodality management of craniopharyngioma. - Role of radiosurgery in management of intracranial malignancies. - Gamma Knife treatment strategy for metastatic brain tumors. - Stereotactic radiosurgery for malignant extracerebral intracranial tumors: Patient selection, efficacy, and technical nuances. - Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery for atypical and malignant meningioma. - Management of non-benign meningiomas with Gamma Knife radiosurgery. - The treatment of cavernoma: An evidence based dilemma? - Microsurgical or radiosurgical management of intracranial cavernomas. - Gamma Knife radiosurgery of brain cavernomas. - Gamma Knife radiosurgery for the treatment of intracranial dural arteriovenous fistulas. -Radiosurgery as a neuromodulation therapy. - Long-term outcome of Gamma Knife surgery using a retrogasserian petrous bone target for classic trigeminal neuralgia. - Complications of Gamma Knife neurosurgery and their appropriate management. - How to control Propofol infusion in pediatric patients undergoing Gamma Knife radiosurgery. - Testing of blood DNA radiosensitivity may be predictive for efficacy of experimental glioma irradiation: Animal study.  - Advanced Neuroimaging for Gamma Knife Neurosurgery: Importance of neuroimaging accuracy in radiosurgery. - Optimal visualization of multiple brain metastases for Gamma Knife radiosurgery. - Usefulness of advanced neuroimaging protocol, based on plain and gadolinium-enhanced Constructive Interference in Steady State (CISS) images, for Gamma Knife radiosurgery and planning of the microsurgical procedures for skull base tumors. - Usefulness of Leksell GammaPlan for preoperative planning of brain tumor resection: Delineation of the cranial nerves and fusion of the neuroimaging data, including DTI. - Perspectives of 3T MRI in radiosurgical treatment planning.  - Differentiation of the tumor progression and radiation-induced effects after intracranial radiosurgery.