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Thirty-two consecutive patients with 34 small brain metastases underwent boost stereotactic radiosurgery using the first North American Gamma Unit between May 1988 and July 1990. The majority of tumors (n = 24; 71%) were considered resistant to conventional, fractionated irradiation (malignant melanoma, n = 13; non-small cell lung carcinoma, n = 7; renal cell carcinoma, n = 4). During the follow-up period (median = 10 months; range = 1.5–15 months) no patient suffered a complication of radiosurgical treatment, and no patient died from a radiosurgically-treated metastasis. Shrinkage or growth-arrest was documented in 20 of 23 patients (87%) available for follow-up. Median survival after treatment was 10 months.
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Coffey, R.J., Flickinger, J.C., Lunsford, L.D., Bissonette, D.J. (1991). Solitary Brain Metastasis: Radiosurgery in Lieu of Microsurgery in 32 Patients. In: Hitchcock, E.R., Broggi, G., Burzaco, J., Martin-Rodriguez, J., Meyerson, B.A., Tóth, S. (eds) Advances in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery 9. Acta Neurochirurgica Supplementum, vol 52. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9160-6_26
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