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Cavernous sinus hemangiomas (CSHs) are rare benign vascular tumors. Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) has emerged as a principal alternative to microsurgery for small- and medium-sized CSHs. Resection is a reasonable option for large (3–4 cm in diameter) and giant (>4 cm in diameter) CSHs. However, the management of large and giant CSHs remains a challenge for neurosurgeons because of the critical structures in the cavernous sinus and massive hemorrhage during surgery. Multisession CyberKnife radiosurgery provides a good tumor control for large CSHs. Morbidity after SRS or multisession CyberKnife radiosurgery is much less than that after microsurgery for patients with CSHs.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    Enmin Wang

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  1. Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Alfredo Conti

  2. Scientific Director, AB Medica, Milano, Italy

    Pantaleo Romanelli

  3. Assistant Professor, Medical Physics Laboratory, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Evangelos Pantelis

  4. Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University Cancer Center, Stanford, CA, USA

    Scott G. Soltys

  5. Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery and Radiosurgery Center, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Young Hyun Cho

  6. Department of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Michael Lim

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Wang, E. (2020). Cavernous Sinus Hemangioma. In: Conti, A., Romanelli, P., Pantelis, E., Soltys, S., Cho, Y., Lim, M. (eds) CyberKnife NeuroRadiosurgery . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50668-1_46

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