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The greatest challenge to neurosurgeons is tumors located at the skull base. In many patients, complete resection of skull base tumors is often not possible without a high risk of neurologic deficits and morbidity. Therefore, highly precise radiation techniques are required. For small tumor volumes, radiosurgery is often used. In case of large tumor volumes, fractionated stereotactic radiation therapy combines the advantage of spatial precision of radiosurgery and the radiobiological advantage of fractionation with better sparing of normal tissue [1].

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    Stefanie Milker-Zabel MD

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Young Kwok MD

  3. Department of Radiation Oncology and Radiation Therapy, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Jürgen Debus MD, PhD

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Milker-Zabel, S., Kwok, Y., Debus, J. (2008). Skull Base Tumors. In: Chin, L.S., Regine, W.F. (eds) Principles and Practice of Stereotactic Radiosurgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71070-9_37

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