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Links to information about stereotactic radiosurgery for brain and pituitary tumors, vascular
malformations (AVM), and movement disorders including Parkinson's Disease and tremor.
- Gamma Knife Radiosurgery--Opening the Door to Outpatient Brain Surgery.
An article describing the experience of having a brain arteriovenous malformation (AVM) treated with the
Gamma Knife.
- Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for brain metastases from other tumors
such as those arising in the breast, lung, kidney, melanoma or colon.
- Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for trigeminal neuralgia.
- An article on Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for a Brain Tumors.
- Wake Forest University Gamma Knife Center FAQ (Frequently Asked
Questions)
- Real Video presentation on Gamma
Knife Radiosurgery from the University of Pittsburgh.
- Articles from the first Gamma Knife Unit in the United States (Pittsburgh, opened in 1989):
- Long-Term Outcomes
after Meningioma Radiosurgery: Physician and Patient Perspectives. Douglas Kondziolka, M.D., M.Sc., FRCS(C),
Elad I. Levy, M.D., Ajay Niranjan, M.Ch., John C. Flickinger, M.D., L. Dade Lunsford, M.D. UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh,
PA.
- Gamma Knife
Radiosurgery for Vestibular Schwannomas Douglas Kondziolka, M.D., M.Sc., FRCS(C), L. Dade Lunsford, M.D., John
C. Flickinger, M.D. UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, PA.
- Long-Term Outcomes
After Radiosurgery for Acoustic Neuromas. Published in The New England Journal of Medicine 339(20):
1426-1433, 1998
- Stereotactic
Radiosurgery Plus Whole Brain Radiotherapy versus Radiotherapy Alone for Patients with Multiple Brain Metastases.
Douglas Kondziolka, M.D., M.Sc., FRCS(C), Atul Patel, M.D., L. Dade Lunsford, M.D., Amin Kassam, M.D., FRCS(C),
John C. Flickinger, M.D. UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, PA.
- Decision Making
for Patients with Multiple Brain Metastases: Radiosurgery, Radiotherapy, or Resection? Douglas Kondziolka,
M.D., M.Sc., FRCS(C), Atul Patel, M.D., L. Dade Lunsford, M.D., John C. Flickinger, M.D. UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh,
PA.
- Stereotactic
Radiosurgery for Hemangioblastomas of the Brain. Ajay Jawahar, M.S., Douglas Kondziolka, M.D., Yolanda I. Garces,
M.D., John C. Flickinger, M.D., Bruce E. Pollock, M.D., and L. Dade Lunsford, M.D. Published in Acta Neurochirurgica
142:641-645, 2000.
- Clinical Outcomes
After Stereotactic Radiosurgery For Idiopathic Trigeminal Neuralgia
Satoshi Maesawa, M.D., Camille Salame, M.D., John C. Flickinger, M.D., Stephen Pirris, B.S., Douglas Kondziolka,
M.D., L. Dade Lunsford, M.D. UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, PA.
- Stereotactic
Radiosurgery (UIowa)
- The
Gamma Knife Treatment Procedure
- Choose a link below to see the simple, painless and straightforward treatment procedure and a description of
the patient experience before, during and after Gamma Knife® Surgery from Elekta, Inc.
- A history of radiosurgery
with emphasis on early uses of particle beams
- A comparison of Gamma
Knife®, Stereotactic-LINAC, and Proton-beam radiosurgery.
- The International Radiosurgery Support Association Homepage.
- Also see the Yahoo®: Radiosurgery
Web Index
Other sources of information about treatment of brain tumors and arteriovenous malformations (AVM) and movement
disorders including Parkinson's Disease and tremor:
There are a variety of different radiosurgery systems and three dimensional planning sysytems marketed. For
the vast majority of lesions they provide very similar stereotactic radiation doses and similar results are therefore
also expected. The decision between radiosurgery and conventional surgery is much more significant than the
type of radiosurgical device and treatment planning software used. Information from companies and instituitions
that make some of the systems currently in use are listed below:
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