Advances in Radiosurgery

Radiosurgery is a rapidly developing form of minimally invasive neurosurgery. Selected papers from the first meeting of the International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society in Stockholm, June 1993, reflect current multidisciplinary approaches to difficult intracranial neurosurgical problems. Neurosurgeons, radiotherapists, oncologists, radiobiologists, physicists and representatives of several other clinical disciplines inform about the state-of-the-art of radiosurgical treatment of a multitude of intracranial problems such as arteriovenous malformations, pituitary and pineal tumors, vestibular schwannomas as well as metastatic brain tumors and gliomas.

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Opening Lecture: Lars Leksell's Vision Radiosurgery.- Linear Accelerator Radiosurgery of Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations: Current Status.- Radiosurgery of Carotid-Cavernous Fistulae.- Radiosurgery Dose Distributions: Theoretical Impact of Inhomogeneities on Lesion Control.- Intrinsic and Extrinsic Characteristics of Human Tumors Relevant to Radiosurgery: Comparative Cellular Radiosensitivity and Hypoxic Percentages.- A Universal, Multi-Modality Localization System for Animal Radiosurgery.- Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Pituitary Adenomas: Imaging, Visual and Endocrine Results.- Tumour Volume Reduction Following Gamma Knife Radiosurgery: The Relationship Between X-ray and Histological Findings.- Radiosensitive Craniopharyngiomas: The Role of Radiosurgery.- A Comparison of Survival Between Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Implants for Malignant Astrocytomas.- Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Tectal Low-Grade Gliomas.- Stereotactic Radiosurgery of Deeply Seated Low Grade Gliomas.- Radiosurgical Treatment of Gliomas of the Diencephalon.- Long-Term Follow-up of Gliomas Treated with Fractionated Stereotactic Irradiation.- Linac Radiosurgery in Brain Metastases.- Gamma Knife Radiosurgery of a Series of Only Minimally Selected Metastatic Brain Tumours.- Long-Term Follow-up Study of Conventional Irradiation for Brain Tumours in Children: A Role for Radiosurgery.- Stereotactic Radiosurgery of Vestibular Schwannomas with a Linear Accelerator.- The Early Effects of Gamma Knife on 40 Cases of Acoustic Neurinoma.- Quality Assurance Programme on Stereotactic Radiosurgery.- Quality Assurance for Non-Invasive Patient Fixation During Stereotactic Convergent Beam Irradiation.- Medial Thalamotomy with the Leksell Gamma Knife for Treatment of Chronic Pain.- Radiosurgery of Epilepsy:Long-Term Results.- Application of Stereotactic Radiosurgery to the Head and Neck Region.- Stereotactic Radiotherapy: a Technique for Dose Optimization and Escalation for Intracranial Tumors.- Index of Key words.