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Visual changes after gamma knife surgery for optic nerve tumors
- Source :
- Journal of Neurosurgery. 102:143-146
- Publication Year :
- 2005
- Publisher :
- Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG), 2005.
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Abstract
- ✓ Tumors involving the optic nerve (optic glioma, optic nerve sheath meningioma) are benign but difficult to treat. Gamma knife surgery (GKS) may be a useful treatment. The authors present data obtained in three such cases and record the effects of GKS.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Optic Nerve Glioma
Gamma-knife surgery
medicine.medical_specialty
genetic structures
Optic glioma
Vision Disorders
Visual Acuity
Visual changes
Radiation Dosage
Radiosurgery
Postoperative Complications
Meningeal Neoplasms
medicine
Exophthalmos
Humans
Cranial Nerve Neoplasms
Child
neoplasms
business.industry
Optic Nerve Neoplasms
medicine.disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
eye diseases
Tumor Burden
nervous system diseases
Optic nerve sheath meningioma
Surgery
Optic nerve
Female
Radiology
sense organs
Meningioma
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00223085
- Volume :
- 102
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Neurosurgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....28ce92dcbf7b190e3c15ea0701e149b8
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3171/sup.2005.102.s_supplement.0143