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Gamma Knife radiosurgery as a treatment modality for low-grade pediatric brainstem gliomas: report of two cases

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Chih-Hsiang Liao, David Hung-Chi Pan, Huai-Che Yang, Tai-Tong Wong & Yang-Hsin Shih

  2. Department of Radiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Hsiu-Mei Wu

  3. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Donald Ming-Tak Ho

  4. National Yang Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

    David Hung-Chi Pan, Huai-Che Yang, Hsiu-Mei Wu, Donald Ming-Tak Ho, Tai-Tong Wong & Yang-Hsin Shih

  5. Division of Functional Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, 201, Section 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei, 112, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Huai-Che Yang

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Liao, CH., Pan, D.HC., Yang, HC. et al. Gamma Knife radiosurgery as a treatment modality for low-grade pediatric brainstem gliomas: report of two cases. Childs Nerv Syst 28, 175–178 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-011-1620-9

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