Articles in focus

Concerns About Psychiatric Neurosurgery and How They Can Be Overcome: Recommendations for Responsible Research

Sabine Müller, Ansel van Oosterhout, Chris Bervoets, Markus Christen, Roberto Martínez-Álvarez & Merlin Bittlinger

Neuroethics, 15, Article number: 6 (April 2022) 


Differential expression of a brain aging biomarker across discrete chronic pain disorders

Peter Shih-Ping Hung, Jia Y Zhang, Alborz Noorani, Matthew R Walker, Megan Huang, Jason W Zhang, Normand Laperriere, Frank Rudzicz, Mojgan Hodaie

Pain. 2022 Feb 23. Doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002613. Online ahead of print.


Bevacizumab plus irinotecan with or without gamma knife radiosurgery after failure of concurrent chemo-radiotherapy for high-grade glioma

Yong-Pyo Lee, Hyun Ae Jung, Min-Sang Lee, Jung Won Choi, Doo-Sik Kong, Ho Jun Seol, Do-Hyun Nam, Jung-Il Lee & Se-Hoon Lee

J Neurooncol (2022). January 30, 2022. doi.org/10.1007/s11060-021-03930-4


Stereotactic radiosurgery versus active surveillance for asymptomatic, skull-based meningiomas: an international, multicenter matched cohort study

Georgios Mantziaris, Stylianos Pikis, Yavuz Samanci, Selcuk Peker, Ahmed M. Nabeel, Wael A. Reda, Sameh R. Tawadros, Amr M. N. El-Shehaby, Khaled Abdelkarim, Reem M. Emad, Violaine Delabar, David Mathieu, Cheng-chia Lee, Huai-che Yang, Roman Liscak, Jaromir Hanuska, Roberto Martinez Alvarez, Nuria Martinez Moreno, Manjul Tripathi, Herwin Speckter, Camilo Albert, Ronald J. Benveniste, Greg N. Bowden, Dev N. Patel, Douglas Kondziolka, Kenneth Bernstein, L. Dade Lunsford, Michael D. Jenkinson, Abdurrahman I. Islim & Jason Sheehan

J Neurooncol (2022). January 24, 2022. doi.org/10.1007/s11060-021-03923-3


Spontaneous intracerebral pseudoaneurysm rupture and meningiomatosis: A case report and review of the literature

Kishore Balasubramanian, Paolo Palmisciano, Gianluca Scalia, Antonio Crea, Ali S. Haider, Saverio Fagone, Gianluca Ferini, Anna Viola, Salvatore Cicero, Giuseppe Emmanuele Umana

Surgical Neurology International. January 20, 2022. DOI 10.25259/SNI_1225_2021


Stereotactic radiosurgery for vestibular schwannomas in neurofibromatosis type 2 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Umberto Tosi, Omri Maayan, Anjile An, Miguel E. Tusa Lavieri, Sergio W. Guadix, Antonio P. DeRosa, Paul J. Christos, Susan Pannullo, Philip E. Stieg, Andrew Brandmaier, Jonathan P. S. Knisely & Rohan Ramakrishna

J Neurooncol (2022), January 18, 2022. Doi.org/10.1007/s11060-021-03910-8


Predictors of Significant Patient Movement During Frameless Radiosurgery with the Gamma Knife® Icon™ Cone-Beam CT

William N. Duggar, Bart Morris, Rui He, Claus Chunli Yang

Cureus, January 18, 2022. DOI: 10.7759/cureus.21380


Long-term outcome of adjunctive Gamma Knife radiosurgery in skull-base chordomas and chondrosarcomas: An Indian experience

Sanjeev Pattankar, Anshu Warade, Basant K Misra, Ramesh B Deshpande

J Clin Neurosci. 2022 Jan 11;96:90-100. Doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2021.12.018. Online ahead of print.


Efficacy of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery in Refractory Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: An Indian Experience

Sanjeev Pattankar, Milind Sankhe, Kersi Chavda

J Neurosci Rural Pract. January 5, 2022. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1740453


Gamma Knife Radiosurgery With Mask Fixation Under General Anesthesia for Pediatric Patients

Hideo Yamaguchi

Cureus January 3, 2022. DOI: 10.7759/cureus.20905


Gamma Knife Radiosurgery in the Management of Hypothalamic Glioma: A Case Report with Long-term Follow-up

Fareed Jumah, Hussam Abou-Al-Shaar, Arka N Mallela, Clayton A Wiley, L Dade Lunsford

Pediatr Neurosurg. 2021 Dec 30. doi: 10.1159/000521732. Online ahead of print.


Treatment for Brain Metastases: ASCO-SNO-ASTRO Guideline

Michael A. Vogelbaum , MD, PhD; Paul D. Brown , MD; Hans Messersmith , MPH; Priscilla K. Brastianos , MD; Stuart Burri, MD; Dan Cahill, MD, PhD; Ian F. Dunn, MD; Laurie E. Gaspar, MD, MBA; Na Tosha N. Gatson , MD, PhD; Vinai Gondi, MD; Justin T. Jordan , MD; Andrew B. Lassman , MD; Julia Maues , MA; Nimish Mohile, MD; Navid Redjal , MD; Glen Stevens , DO, PhD; Erik Sulman , MD, PhD; Martin van den Bent , MD, H. James Wallace , MD; Jeffrey S. Weinberg, MD; Gelareh Zadeh, MD, PhD; and David Schiff , MD

Journal of Clinical Oncology, published online Dec 21, 2021. DOI: 10.1200/JCO.21.02314


Outcomes of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Brain Metastases From Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase Rearrangement-Positive and EGFR Mutation-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Shigeo Matsunaga, Takashi Shuto

Cureus, December 13, 2021. DOI: 10.7759/cureus.20398


Increased Gray Matter Density in the Right Mesencephalic Tegmentum Is Associated With Better Engel Classes I and II After Radiosurgery for Hypothalamic Hamartomas

Tuleasca, Constantin, Hamdi, Hussein, Daquin, Géraldine, Villeneuve, Nathalie, Chauvel, Patrick, Lepine, Anne, Bartolomei, Fabrice, Régis, Jean

Neurosurgery: December 2, 2021 - Volume - Issue - 10.1227/NEU.0000000000001738


Resecting the dominant lesion: Patient outcomes after surgery and radiosurgery vs stand-alone radiosurgery in the setting of multiple brain metastases

Maria Punchak, Stephen P Miranda, Alexis Gutierrez, Steven Brem, Donald O'Rourke, John Y K Lee, Jacob E Shabason, Dmitriy Petrov

Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2021 Dec;211:107016. Epub 2021 Nov 4. Doi: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2021.107016.



Primary treatment of small-to-medium ( <3cm) sporadic vestibular schwannomas: A systematic review and meta-analysis on hearing preservation and tumor control rates for microsurgery versus radiosurgery

Amey R Savardekar, Danielle Terrell, Saudamini J Lele, Ryan Diaz, Praneeth Reddy Keesari, Krystle Trosclair, Jennifer Kosty, Chiachien Jake Wang, Gale Gardner, Bharat Guthikonda

World Neurosurg. 2021 Nov 24;S1878-8750(21)01794-0. DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2021.11.083


WHO grade I meningiomas that show regrowth after gamma knife radiosurgery often show 1p36 loss

Pim J. J. Damen, Vincent J. Bulthuis, Patrick E. J. Hanssens, SuanTe Lie, Ruth Fleischeuer, Veerle Melotte, Kim A. Wouters, Andrea Ruland, Jan Beckervordersandforth, Ernst Jan M. Speel

Nature/Scientific Reports 11, Article number: 16432 (2021): Published: 12 August 2021, Open Access


Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Incidentally Discovered Cavernous Sinus Meningiomas: A Multi-institutional Study

Stylianos Pikis, Georgios Mantziaris, Yavuz Samanci, Selcuk Peker, Ahmed M. Nabeel, Wael A. Reda, Sameh R. Tawadros, Amr M. N. El-Shehaby, Khaled Abdelkarim, Reem M. Emad, Cheng-chia Lee, Huai-che Yang, Roman Liscak, Jaromir Hanuska, Roberto Martinez Alvarez, Nuria Martinez Moreno, Manjul Tripathi, Herwin Speckter, Jason Sheehan

World Neurosurg. 2021 Nov 13;S1878-8750(21)01738-1. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2021.11.037. Online ahead of print.


Assessing the long-term safety and efficacy of gamma knife and linear accelerator radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Sergio W Guadix, Alice J Tao, Anjile An, Michelle Demetres, Umberto Tosi, Swathi Chidambaram, Jonathan P S Knisely, Rohan Ramakrishna, Susan C Pannullo

Neuro-Oncology Practice, Volume 8, Issue 6, December 2021, Pages 639–651, https://doi.org/10.1093/nop/npab052


The Impact of Volume Factor on the Long-Term Outcome of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Sporadic Cerebral Cavernous Malformations

Xiyao Wu, Weitao Chen, Yaojing Lin, Risheng Liang

World Neurosurg. 2021 Nov 11;S1878-8750(21)01730-7. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2021.11.029. Online ahead of print.


Concurrent vs. Sequential Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Immune Checkpoint Inhibition in Melanoma Brain Metastases: An International Cooperative Group Study

E.J. Lehrer, J. Gurewitz, D. Malouff, K. Bernstein, D. Kondziolka, P. Bonney, S.I. Patel, J.D. Palmer, K. Fakhoury, C.G. Rusthoven Jr, D. Mathieu, C. Deibert, P. Picozzi, B. Jones, C.C. Lee, S. Sharma, A. Niranjan, J.P. Sheehan, D.M. Trifiletti

Red Journal (IJROBP), Volume 111, Issue 3, Supplement, 1 November 2021, Pages e571-e572: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2021.07.1542


Segmentation of vestibular schwannoma from MRI, an open annotated dataset and baseline algorithm

Jonathan Shapey, Aaron Kujawa, Reuben Dorent, GuotaiWang, Alexis Dimitriadis, DianaGrishchuk, Ian Paddick, Neil Kitchen, Robert Bradford,Shakeel R. Saeed, Sotirios Bisdas, SébastienOurselin & TomVercauteren

Scientific Data | (2021) 8:286 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-01064-w


The evolving role of neurosurgery for central nervous system metastases in the era of personalized cancer therapy

Philipp Karschnia, Emilie Le Rhun, Michael A Vogelbaum, Martin van den Bent, Stefan J Grau, Matthias Preusser, Riccardo Soffietti, Louisa von Baumgarten, Manfred Westphal, Michael Weller, Joerg-Christian Tonn

Eur J Cancer. 2021 Oct;156:93-108. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2021.07.032. Epub 2021 Aug 20.


LACK OF DELAYED NEUROCOGNITIVE SIDE-EFFECTS OF GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY IN ACROMEGALY: THE LATER-AC STUDY

Frederic Castinetti, Philippe Caron, Isabelle Raingeard, Vincent Amodru, Frederique Albarel, Isabelle Morange, Philippe Chanson, Julie Calvo, Thomas Graillon, Karine Baumstarck, Henry Dufour, Jean Regis, and Thierry Brue

European Journal of Endocrinology, Oct 2021: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1530/EJE-21-0826


Long-term outcomes of staged Gamma Knife radiosurgery for giant cavernous sinus hemangiomas: a single-center retrospective study

Ruyi Yang, Xinjun Wang, Ziqiang Xv, Puxue Zhao, Junwu Li, Quan An, Shan Huang

J Neurosurg. 2021 Oct 29;1-7. doi: 10.3171/2021.7.JNS21955. Online ahead of print.


Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Pituitary Tumors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Luigi Albano, Marco Losa, Lina Raffaella Barzaghi, Ajay Niranjan, Zaid Siddiqui, John C. Flickinger, Lawrence Dade Lunsford and Pietro Mortini

Cancers Oct 2021,13 (19), 4998; https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers13194998


Quantification of tumor response of cystic vestibular schwannoma to Gamma Knife radiosurgery by using artificial intelligence

Chih-Ying Huang, Syu-Jyun Peng, Hsiu-Mei Wu, Huai-Che Yang, Ching-Jen Chen, Mao-Che Wang,Yong-Sin Hu, Yu-Wei Chen, Chung-Jung Lin, Wan-Yuo Guo, David Hung-Chi Pan, Wen-Yuh Chung, and Cheng-Chia Lee

J Neurosurg, online publication Oct 1, 2021: DOI link: https://doi.org/10.3171/2021.4.JNS203700


Stereotactic radiosurgery for prostate cancer cerebral metastases: an international multicenter study

Stylianos Pikis, Adomas Bunevicius, Cheng-Chia Lee MD, Huai-Che Yang, Brad E. Zacharia,Roman Liščák, Gabriela Simonova, Manjul Tripathi, Narendra Kumar, David Mathieu, Rémi Perron, Selcuk Peker, Yavuz Samanci, Jason Gurewitz, Kenneth Bernstein, Douglas Kondziolka, Ajay Niranjan, L. Dade Lunsford, Nikolaos Mantziaris, and Jason P. Sheehan

J Neurosurg, online publication Oct 1, 2021: DOI link: https://doi.org/10.3171/2021.4.JNS203700

 


Stereotactic radiosurgery as the first-line treatment for intracanalicular vestibular schwannomas

Akiyoshi Ogino, L. Dade Lunsford, Hao Long, Stephen Johnson, Andrew Faramand, Ajay Niranjan, John C. Flickinger, and Hideyuki Kano

J Neurosurg, volume 135: Issue 4 (Oct 2021): https://doi.org/10.3171/2020.9.JNS202818


Outcomes after stereotactic radiosurgery for schwannomas of the oculomotor, trochlear, and abducens nerves

Anne-Marie Langlois, Christian Iorio-Morin, Andrew Faramand, Ajay Niranjan, L. Dade Lunsford, Nasser Mohammed, Jason P. Sheehan, Roman Liščák, Dušan Urgošík, Douglas Kondziolka, Cheng-chia Lee, Huai-che Yang, Ahmet F. Atik, and David Mathieu

J Neurosurg, volume 135: Issue 4 (Oct 2021): https://doi.org/10.3171/2020.8.JNS20887


Dose to neuroanatomical structures surrounding pituitary adenomas and the effect of stereotactic radiosurgery on neuroendocrine function: an international multicenter study

I Jonathan Pomeraniec, Zhiyuan Xu, Cheng-Chia Lee, Huai-Che Yang, Tomas Chytka, Roman Liscak, Roberto Martinez-Alvarez, Nuria Martinez-Moreno, Luca Attuati, Piero Picozzi, Douglas Kondziolka, Monica Mureb, Kenneth Bernstein, David Mathieu, Michel Maillet, Akiyoshi Ogino, Hao Long, Hideyuki Kano, L Dade Lunsford, Brad E Zacharia, Christine Mau, Leonard C Tuanquin, Christopher Cifarelli, David Arsanious, Joshua Hack, Ronald E Warnick, Ben A Strickland, Gabriel Zada, Eric L Chang, Herwin Speckter, Samir Patel, Dale Ding, Darrah Sheehan, Kimball Sheehan, Svetlana Kvint, Love Y Buch, Alexander R Haber, Jacob Shteinhart, Mary Lee Vance, Jason P Sheehan

J Neurosurg 2021 Sep 24;1-9. doi: 10.3171/2021.3.JNS203812. Online ahead of print.


Stereotactic radiosurgery for clinoid meningiomas: a multi-institutional study

Adomas Bunevicius, Stylianos Pikis, Jason Sheehan

Acta Neurochirurgica volume 163, pages 2861–2869, October 2021: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-021-04972-3


Stereotactic radiosurgery for treatment of radiation-induced meningiomas: a multiinstitutional study

Adomas Bunevicius, Mohand Suleiman, Samir Patel, Roberto Martínez Álvarez, Nuria E. Martinez Moreno, Roman Liscak, Jaromir Hanuska, Anne-Marie Langlois, David Mathieu, Christine Mau, Catherine Caldwell, Leonard C. Tuanquin, Brad E. Zacharia, James McInerney, Cheng-Chia Lee, Huai-Che Yang, Jennifer L. Peterson, Daniel M. Trifiletti, Akiyoshi Ogino, Hideyuki Kano, Ronald E. Warnick, Anissa Saylany, Love Y. Buch, John Y. K. Lee, Ben A. Strickland, Gabriel Zada, Eric L. Chang, L. Dade Lunsford, Jason Sheehan

Journal of Neurosurgery. September 2021: https://doi.org/10.3171/2020.7.JNS202064


Stereotactic radiosurgery for secretory pituitary adenomas: systematic review and International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society practice recommendations

David Mathieu, Rupesh Kotecha, Arjun Sahgal, Antonio De Salles, Laura Fariselli, Bruce E. Pollock, Marc Levivier, Lijun Ma, Ian Paddick, Jean Regis, Shoji Yomo, John H. Suh, Muni Rubens, and Jason P. Sheehan

Journal of Neurosurgery. September 2021: https://doi.org/10.3171/2021.2.JNS204440


Stereotactic radiosurgery for craniopharyngiomas

Stylianos Pikis, Georgios Mantziaris, Karen Lavezzo, Nisha Dabhi, Jason Sheehan 

Acta Neurochirurgica September 2021: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-021-04990-1



Outcome of intracerebral cavernoma treated by Gamma Knife radiosurgery based on a double-blind assessment of treatment indication

Chiung-Chyi Shen, Ming Hsi Sun, Meng-Yin Yang, Weir-Chiang You, Meei-Ling Sheu, Yen-Ju Chen, Ying Ju Chen, Jason Sheehan, Hung-Chuan Pan 

Radiation Oncology volume 16, Article number: 164 August 2021


Efficacy of Gamma Knife radiosurgery in the management of pituitary prolactinoma

Bassam Mahmood Flamerz Arkawazi, Ahmed Al Atraqchi, Arjan Adnan, Shaymaa Dheyab

Surgical Neurology International, July 19, 2021: DOI:10.25259/SNI_230_2021


An International Multicenter Matched Cohort Analysis of Incidental Meningioma Progression During Active Surveillance or After Stereotactic Radiosurgery: The IMPASSE Study

Jason Sheehan, Stylianos Pikis, Abdurrahman Islim, Ching-Jen Chen, Adomas Bunevicius, Selcuk Peker, Yavuz Samanci, Ahmed M Nabeel, Wael A Reda, Sameh R Tawadros, Amr M N El-Shehaby, Khaled Abdelkarim, Reem M Emad, Violaine Delabar, David Mathieu, Cheng-Chia Lee, Huai-Che Yang, Roman Liscak, Jaromir Hanuska, Roberto Martinez Alvarez, Dev Patel, Douglas Kondziolka, Nuria Martinez Moreno, Manjul Tripathi, Herwin Speckter, Camilo Albert, Greg N Bowden, Ronald J Benveniste, L Dade Lunsford, Michael D Jenkinson

Neuro Oncol. 2021 Jun 9; noab132. doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noab132


Predictive Factors of Radiation-Induced Changes Following Single-Session Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Arteriovenous Malformations

Myung Ji Kim,Kyung Won Chang,So Hee Park,Won Seok Chang,Jong Hee Chang,Jin Woo Chang  and Hyun Ho Jung

J. Clin. Med. 2021, 10(10), 2186; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10102186


Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Post-Operative Metastatic Surgical Cavities: A Critical Review and International Society of Stereotactic Radiosurgery (ISRS) Practice Guidelines

Kristin J Redmond, Antonio Af De Salles, Laura Fariselli, Marc Levivier, Lijun Ma, Ian Paddick, Bruce E Pollock, Jean Regis, Jason Sheehan, John Suh, Shoji Yomo, Arjun Sahgal

Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2021 Apr 20;S0360-3016(21)00377-1


Large vestibular schwannomas: long-term outcomes after stereotactic radiosurgery

Daniela Stastna, Dusan Urgosik, Tomas Chytka, Roman Liscak

Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2021 Jan;41(6):329-338; PMID; 33714245


The evolution of stereotactic radiosurgery in neurosurgical practice

Daniel M Trifiletti, Henry Ruiz-Garcia, Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Rohan Ramakrishna, Jason P Sheehan

J Neurooncol. 2021 Feb;151(3):451-459; doi: 10.1007/s11060-020-03392-0.


Microsurgery vs. Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for the Treatment of Brainstem Cavernous Malformations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Malformations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Xiangyu Gao, Kangyi Yue, Jidong Sun, Yuan Cao, Boyan Zhao, Haofuzi Zhang, Shuhui Dai, Lei Zhang, Peng Luo, Xiaofan Jiang

Front. Neurol., 26 January 2021; doi; 10.3389/fneur.2021.600461


Stereotactic radiosurgery training patterns across neurosurgical programs: a multi‑national survey

Nardin Samuel, Daniel M. Trifiletti. Alfredo Quinones‑Hinojosa, L. Dade Lunsford, Jason Sheehan

Journal of Neuro-Oncology, January 2021; doi; 10.1007/s11060-020-03670-x


Extracranial dose and the risk of radiation-induced malignancy after intracranial stereotactic radiosurgery: is it time to establish a therapeutic reference level?

I Paddick, A. Cameron, A. Dimitriadis

Acta Neurochirurgica, December 2020: doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-020-04664-4


The Judicious Use of Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Hypofractionated Stereotactic Radiotherapy in the Management of Large Brain Metastases

Tyler Gutschenritter, Vyshak A. Venur, Stephanie E. Combs, Balamurugan Vellayappan, Anoop P. Patel, Matthew Foote, Kristin J. Redmond, Tony J. C. Wang, Arjun Sahgal, Samuel T. Chao, John H. Suh, Eric L. Chang, Richard G. Ellenbogen, Simon S. Lo

Cancers, December 2020: doi: 10.3390/cancers13010070


Impact of breast cancer subtype on clinical outcomes after Gamma Knife radiosurgery for brain metastases from breast cancer: a multi-institutional retrospective study (JLGK1702)

Kyoko Aoyagi, Yoshinori Higuchi, Shigeo Matsunaga, Toru Serizawa, Shoji Yomo, Hitoshi Aiyama, Osamu Nagano, Takeshi Kondoh, Hiroyuki Kenai, Takashi Shuto, Jun Kawagishi, Hidefumi Jokura, Sonomi Sato, Kiyoshi Nakazaki, Kotaro Nakaya, Toshinori Hasegawa, Mariko Kawashima, Hideya Kawai, Kazuhiro Yamanaka, Yasushi Nagatomo, Masaaki Yamamoto, Yasunori Sato, Tomoyoshi Aoyagi, Tomoo Matsutani & Yasuo Iwadate

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment volume 184, pages149–159 (2020)


Outcomes of stereotactic radiosurgery for pilocytic astrocytoma: an international multiinstitutional study

Erin S Murphy, Shireen Parsai, Hideyuki Kano, Jason P Sheehan, Roberto Martinez-Alvarez, Nuria Martinez-Moreno, Douglas Kondziolka, Gabriela Simonova, Roman Liscak, David Mathieu, Cheng-Chia Lee, Huai-Che Yang, John Y Lee, Brendan J McShane, Fang Fang, Daniel M Trifiletti, Mayur Sharma, Gene H Barnett

J Neurosurg 134:162–170, 2021; doi; 10.3171/2019.9.JNS191335


Long-term outcomes of pediatric arteriovenous malformations: the 30-year Pittsburgh experience

Michael M. McDowell, Nitin Agarwal, Gordon Mao, Stephen A Johnson

Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics. May 2020: doi:10.3171/2020.3.PEDS19614


Volumetric growth rates of untreated vestibular Schwannomas

Zane Schnurman, Aya Nakamura, Michelle W. McQuinn, John G. Golfinos, J. Thomas Roland Jr. and Douglas Kondziolka

Journal of Neurosurgery. August 2019: doi: https://doi.org/10.3171/2019.5.JNS1923


Patient perspectives on frame versus mask immobilization for gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery

Li W; Cashell A; Lee I; Tamerou M; Coolens C; Bernstein M; Kongkham P; Laperriere N; Shultz D

JMIRS, Aug 2020: DOI 10.1016/j.jmir.2020.08.001


Hypothalamotomy in patients with treatment-resistant aggressiveness: functional outcomes

A Otero, B Pérez, A F Ríos-Quintero, A Sánchez-Escobar, C Ocampo

Rev Neurol. 2020 Aug 1;71(3):93-98.doi:10.33588/rn.7103.2019509.


Performing Gamma Knife radiosurgery safely during the COVID-19 pandemic: preliminary results from a single center in the Lombardy region in Italy

Andrea Franzini, Luca Attuati, Maurizio Fornari, Franco Servadei, Pierina Navarria, Piero Picozzi

Acta Neurochirurgica. 2020 May 18: 1–2. doi:10.1007/s00701-020-04400-y

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Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Treatment of Brain Metastases during the COVID-19 Outbreak

Francesco Maria Crisà, Filippo Leocata, Virginia Maria Arienti, Marco Picano, Luca Berta, Hae Song Mainardi, Angelo Filippo Monti, Francesco Musca, Silvia Colombo, Mauro Palazzi, Alessandro La Camera

Stereotact Funct Neurosurg, 2020 July. https://doi.org/10.1159/000510271

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Maintaining stereotactic radiosurgical treatments during Covid-19 outbreak: the case of the Gamma Knife Unit in Brescia – Italy

Alberto Franzin, Giorgio Spatola, Lodoviga Giudice, Oscar Vivaldi, Cesare Giorgi

British Journal of Neurosurgery, 34(3), pp. 353–354. 2020 Jun. https://doi.org/10.1080/02688697.2020.1758297


Clinical Considerations in Neurosurgical Radiosurgery in the Time of COVID-19

Susan C Pannullo, Swathi Chidambaram, Andrew Brandmaier, Jonathan Knisely, and John R. Adler, Jr.

Cureus. 2020 Apr; 12(4): e7671. doi:10.7759/cureus.7671

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A novel method to determine the natural course of unruptured brain arteriovenous malformations without the need for follow-up information

Bengt Karlsson, Arne V. Johansson, Huai-Che Yang, Hidefumi Jokura, Masaaki Yamamoto, Roberto Martínez-Álvarez, Jun Kawagishi, Wan-Yuo Guo, Guus Beute, David H. C. Pan, Wen-Yuh Chung, Michael Söderman, Hitoshi Aiyama and Tseng Tsai Yeo

Journal of Neurosurgery, JNS, (Suppl) 129:10–16, 2018DOI: doi.org/10.3171/2018.7.GKS181278

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Current and novel practice of stereotactic radiosurgery

Douglas Kondziolka

Journal of Neurosurgery, JNS, 130:1789–1798, 2019doi.org/10.3171/2019.2.JNS181712

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The NASSAU (New ASSessment of cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations yet Unruptured) Analysis: Are the Results From The ARUBA Trial Also Applicable to Unruptured Arteriovenous Malformations Deemed Suitable for Gamma Knife Surgery?

Bengt Karlsson, Hidefumi Jokura, Huai-Che Yang, Masaaki Yamamoto, Roberto Martinez, Jun Kawagishi, Wan-Yuo Guo, Guus Beute, David H C Pan, Hitoshi Aiyama, Wen-Yuh Chung, Michael Söderman and Tseng Tsai Yeo

Neurosurgery. 2019 Jul 1;85(1):E118-E124. doi: 10.1093/neuros/nyy391.


Evolution of gamma knife capsulotomy for intractable obsessive-compulsive disorder

Euripedes C. Miguel, Antonio C. Lopes, Nicole C. R. McLaughlin, Georg Norén, André F. Gentil, Clement Hamani, Roseli G. Shavitt, Marcelo C. Batistuzzo, Edoardo F. Q. Vattimo, Miguel Canteras, Antonio De Salles, Alessandra Gorgulho, João Victor Salvajoli, Erich Talamoni Fonoff, Ian Paddick, Marcelo Q. Hoexter, Christer Lindquist, Suzanne N. Haber, Benjamin D. Greenberg and Sameer A. Sheth

Molecular Psychiatry (2019) 24:218–240 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-018-0054-0

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Venous outflow restriction as a predictor of cavernous sinus dural arteriovenous fistula obliteration after Gamma Knife surgery

Chia-An Wu, Huai-Che Yang, Yong-Sin Hu, Hsiu-Mei Wu, Chung-Jung Lin, Chao-Bao Luo, Wan-Yuo Guo, Cheng-Chia Lee, Kang-Du Liu, and Wen-Yuh Chung 

Journal of Neurosurgery, JNS, (Jan 2019) 132(1), 132-139. DOI: 10.3171/2018.9.JNS182040


Stereotactic radiosurgery for arteriovenous malformations of the basal ganglia and thalamus: an international multicenter study

Ching-Jen Chen, Kathryn N. Kearns, Dale Ding, Hideyuki Kano, David Mathieu, Douglas Kondziolka, Caleb Feliciano, Rafael Rodriguez-Mercado, Inga S. Grills, Gene H. Barnett, L. Dade Lunsford and Jason P. Sheehan

Journal of Neurosurgery, JNS, (Jan 2019), 132(1), 122-131. DOI: 10.3171/2018.8.JNS182106


Evaluation of stereotactic radiosurgery for cerebral dural arteriovenous fistulas in a multicenter international consortium

Robert M. Starke, David J. McCarthy, Ching-Jen Chen, Hideyuki Kano, Brendan McShane, John Lee, David Mathieu, Lucas T. Vasas, Anthony M. Kaufmann, Wei Gang Wang, Inga S. Grills, Mohana Rao Patibandla, Christopher P. Cifarelli, Gabriella Paisan, John A. Vargo, Tomas Chytka, Ladislava Janouskova, Caleb E. Feliciano, Rafael Rodriguez-Mercado, Daniel A. Tonetti, L. Dade Lunsford, and Jason P. Sheehan

Journal of Neurosurgery JNS, (Jan 2019), 4:1-8. DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3171/2018.8.JNS181467


Safety and Efficacy of Primary Multisession Dose Fractionated Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Jugular Paragangliomas

Manjul Tripathi, Rajashekhar Rekhapalli, Aman Batish, Narendra Kumar, Arun S. Oinam, Chirag K. Ahuja, Harsh Deora, Ashish Aggarwal, Sandeep Mohindra, Parwinder Kaur, Rupinder Kaur, Sandeep Bhatt, Jenil Gurnani

World Neurosurgery, 2019 Nov;131:e136-e148. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2019.07.090. Epub 2019 Jul 16.


Gamma knife radiosurgery compared to whole brain radiation therapy enhances immunity via immunoregulatory molecules in patients with metastatic brain tumours

Mustafa Aziz Hatiboglu, Abdurrahim Kocyigit, Eray Metin Guler, Arife Nalli, Kerime Akdur, Ayten Sakarcan, Erdinc Ozek, Omer Uysal & Alpaslan Mayadagli

British Journal of Neurosurgery 2019 Jul 18:1-7. doi: 10.1080/02688697.2019.1642445. [Epub ahead of print]


The benefit and risk of stereotactic radiosurgery for prolactinomas: an international multicenter cohort study

Yi-Chieh Hung, Cheng-Chia Lee, Huai-che Yang, Nasser Mohammed, Kathryn N. Kearns, Ahmed M. Nabeel, Khaled Abdel Karim, Reem M. Emad Eldin, Amr M. N. El-Shehaby, Wael A. Reda, Sameh R. Tawadros, Roman Liscak, Jana Jezkova, L. Dade Lunsford, Hideyuki Kano, Nathaniel D. Sisterson, Roberto Martínez Álvarez, Nuria E. Martínez Moreno, Douglas Kondziolka, John G. Golfinos, Inga Grills, Andrew Thompson, Hamid Borghei-Razavi, Tanmoy Kumar Maiti, Gene H. Barnett, James McInerney, Brad E. Zacharia, Zhiyuan Xu and Jason P. Sheehan

Journal of Neurosurgery JNS, Publish Before Print; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3171/2019.4.JNS183443  


Frameless Stereotactic Radiosurgery on the Gamma Knife Icon: Early Experience From 100 Patients

Horia Vulpe, Akshay V. Save, Yuanguang Xu, Carl D. Elliston, Matthew D. Garrett, Cheng-Chia Wu, Simon K. Cheng , Ashish H. Jani, Jeffrey N. Bruce, Guy M. McKhann, Tony J. C. Wang, Michael B. Sisti

Neurosurgery, nyz227, August 2019, https://doi.org/10.1093/neuros/nyz227

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Comparison of treatment results between 3- and 2-stage Gamma Knife radiosurgery for large brain metastases: a retrospective multi-institutional study

Toru Serizawa, Yoshinori Higuchi, Masaaki Yamamoto, Shigeo Matsunaga, Osamu Nagano, Yasunori Sato, Kyoko Aoyagi, Shoji Yomo, Takao Koiso, Toshinori Hasegawa, Kiyoshi Nakazaki, Akihito Moriki, Takeshi Kondoh, Yasushi Nagatomo, Hisayo Okamoto, Yukihiko Kohda, Hideya Kawai, Satoka Shidoh, Toru Shibazaki, Shinji Onoue, Hiroyuki Kenai, Akira Inoue and Hisae Mori

Journal of Neurosurgery, Published online September 7, 2018, DOI: 10.3171/2018.4.JNS172596.

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Gamma Knife radiosurgery for intracranial benign meningiomas: follow-up outcome in 130 patients

Youlin Ge, Dong Liu, Zhiyuan Zhang, Yanhe Li, Yiguang Lin,Guokai Wang, Yongqing Zong and Enhu Liu

Neurosurg Focus 46 (6):E7, 2019, DOI:10.3171/2019.3.FOCUS1956

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How to improve obliteration rates during volume-staged stereotactic radiosurgery for large arteriovenous malformations

Hideyuki Kano, John C. Flickinger, Aya Nakamura, Rachel C. Jacobs, Daniel A. Tonetti, Craig Lehocky, Kyung-Jae Park, Huai-che Yang, Ajay Niranjan and L. Dade Lunsford

Journal of Neurosurgery, Published online July 20, 2018:DOI: 10.3171/2018.2.JNS172964

 


Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery for cavernous sinus meningioma: long-term follow-up in 200 patients

Kyung-Jae Park, Hideyuki Kano, Aditya Iyer, Xiaomin Liu, Daniel A. Tonetti, Craig Lehocky, Andrew Faramand, Ajay Niranjan, John C. Flickinger, Douglas Kondziolka, and L. Dade Lunsford

Journal of Neurosurgery, Published online July 20, 2018: DOI: 10.3171/2018.2.JNS172361


Disparities in the Use of Single-fraction Stereotactic Radiosurgery for the Treatment of Brain Metastases From Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer

Ankit Modh, Abhishek Doshi, Charlotte Burmeister, Mohamed A. Elshaikh, Ian Lee ,Mira Shah

Cureus, Published:February 07, 2019, DOI:10.7759/cureus.4031 

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Trigeminal Nerve Atrophy Predicts Pain Recurrence After Gamma Knife Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Classical Trigeminal Neuralgia

Yong-Sin Hu, Cheng-Chia Lee, Wan-Yuo Guo, Chung-Jung Lin, Huai-Che Yang, Hsiu-Mei Wu, Kang-Du Liu, Wen-Yuh Chung

Neurosurgery, Volume 84, Issue 4, April 2019, Pages 927–934,https://doi.org/10.1093/neuros/nyy122 

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Radiation dose to neuroanatomical structures of pituitary adenomas and the effect of Gamma Knife radiosurgery on pituitary function

Jonathan Pomeraniec, Davis G. Taylor or Cohen-Inbar, Zhiyuan Xu, Mary Lee Vance, Jason P. Sheehan

Journal of Neurosurgery, Publish Before Print; DOI: doi.org/10.3171/2019.1.JNS182296

 

 


Milestones in stereotatic radiosurgery for the central nervous system

Stefan Mitrasinovic, Michael Zhang, Geoff Appelboom, Eric Sussman, Justin M. Moore, Steven L. Hancock, John. R. Adler, Douglas Kondziolka, Gary K. Steinberg, Steven D. Chang

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, Published online September 26, 2018; DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2018.09.029


Long-term tumor control following stereotactic radiosurgery for jugular paraganglioma using 3D volumetric segmentation

Neil S. Patel, Matthew L. Carlson, Bruce E. Pollock, Colin L. W. Driscoll, Brian A. Neff, Robert L. Foote, Christine M. Lohse, Michael J. Link

Journal of Neurosurgery, Published online April 13, 2018;DOI: 10.3171/2017.10.JNS17764

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Long-term outcome after Gamma Knife radiosurgery for acoustic neuroma of all Koos grades: a single-center study

Josa M. Frischer, Elise Gruber, Verena Schöffmann, Adolf Ertl, Romana Höftberger, Ammar Mallouhi, Stefan Wolfsberger, Christoph Arnoldner, Wilhelm Eisner, Engelbert Knosp, Klaus Kitz, Brigitte Gatterbauer

Journal of Neurosurgery, Published online March 2, 2018; DOI: 10.3171/2017.8.JNS171281.

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Preoperative Vs Postoperative Radiosurgery For Resected Brain Metastases: A Review

Roshan S Prabhu, Kirtesh R Patel, Robert H Press, Scott G Soltys, Paul D Brown, Minesh P Mehta, Anthony L Asher, Stuart H Burri

Neurosurgery, Volume 84, Issue 1, 1 January 2019, Pages 19–29, doi.org/10.1093/neuros/nyy146

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Temporal Dynamics of Pseudoprogression After Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Vestibular Schwannomas—A Retrospective Volumetric Study

Jonathan D Breshears, Joseph Chang, Annette M Molinaro, Penny K Sneed, Michael W McDermott, Aaron Tward, Philip V Theodosopoulos

Neurosurgery, Volume 84, Issue 1, 1 January 2019, Pages 123–131, doi.org/10.1093/neuros/nyy019


Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Intracranial Ependymomas: An International Multicenter Study

Hideyuki Kano, Yan-Hua Su, Hsiu-Mei Wu, Gabriela Simonova, Roman Liscak, Cohen-Inbar, Jason P. Sheehan, Antonio Meola, Mayur Sharma, Gene H. Barnett, David Mathieu, Lucas T.Vasas, Anthony M. Kaufmann, Rachel C. Jacobs, L. Dade Lunsford

Neurosurgery, Volume 84, Issue 1, 1 January 2019, Pages 227–234: doi.org/10.1093/neuros/nyy082


Risk of radiation-associated intracranial malignancy after stereotactic radiosurgery: a retrospective, multicentre, cohort study

Amparo Wolf, Kyla Naylor, Moses Tam, Akram Habibi, Josef Novotny, Roman Liščák, Nuria Martinez-Moreno, Roberto Martinez-Alvarez, Nathaniel Sisterson, John G Golfinos, Joshua Silverman, Hideyuki Kano, Jason Sheehan, L Dade Lunsford, Douglas Kondziolka

Lancet Oncol 2018 Published Online November 22, 2018 dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(18)30659-4


Gamma Knife radiosurgery for glomus tumors: Long-term results in a series of 30 patients

Alfio Spina, Nicola Boari, Filippo Gagliardi, Michele Bailo, Antonella Del Vecchio, Angelo Bolognesi, Pietro Mortini 

Head & Neck. 2018;1–8. doi.org/10.1002/hed.25517

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The use of Hypofractionated Radiosurgery for the Treatment of Intracranial Lesions Unsuitable for Single-Fraction Radiosurgery

Jim Zhong, Robert H. Press, Jeffrey J. Olson, Nelson M. Oyesik, Hui-Kuo G. Shu, Bree R. Eaton

Neurosurgery 83:850–857, 2018, Published online April 28, 2018; DOI: 10.1093/neuros/nyy145.

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Stereotactic radiosurgery for vestibular schwannomas

Steve Braunstein and Lijun Ma

Dovepress:Cancer Management & Research 2018:10 3733–3740. Published online 2018 Sep 20. doi: 10.2147/CMAR.S140764

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Early surgical diffusivity metrics for prognostication of long-term pain relief after Gamma Knife radiosurgery for trigeminal neuralgia

Sarasa Tohyama, Peter Shih-Ping Hung, Jidan Zhong and Mojgan Hodaie

Journal of Neurosurgery, Published online August 17, 2018; DOI: 10.3171/2018.3.JNS172936.

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Evaluation of Prognostic Factors for Early Mortality After Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Brain Metastases: a Single Institutional Retrospective Review

E. Emily Bennett, Michael A. Vogelbaum, Gene H. Barnett, Lilyana Angelov, Samuel Chao, Erin Murphy, Jennifer Yu, John H. Suh, Paul Elson, Glen H. J. Stevens, Alireza M.Mohammadi

Neurosurgery Volume 83 | Number 1 | July 2018.pp. 128-136. Published Online June 29, 2017 . DOI: 10.1093/neuros/nyx346

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Early imaging radioresponsiveness of melanoma brain metastases as a predictor of patient prognosis

Irina Zubatkina, Pavel Ivanov

Journal of Neurosurgery. Published online on August 25, 2017; DOI: 10.3171/2017.1.JNS162075.

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A virtual musician quartet with vestibular schwannoma

Constantin Tuleasca, Marc Levivier

The Lancet Oncology. Published online in August 2018; DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(18)30371-1


Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia: A Systematic Review

International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society Practice Guidelines

Constantin Tuleasca, Jean Régis, Arjun Sahgal, Antonio De Salles, Motohiro Hayashi, Lijun Ma, Roberto Martínez-Álvarez, Ian Paddick, Samuel Ryu, Ben J. Slotman and Marc Levivier

Journal of Neurosurgery. Published online on April 27, 2018; DOI: 10.3171/2017.9.JNS17545.

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Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Tremor: Systematic Review

International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society Practice Guidelines

Nuria E. Martínez-Moreno, Arjun Sahgal, Antonio De Salles, Motohiro Hayashi, Marc Levivier, Lijun Ma, Ian Paddick, Jean Régis, Sam Ryu, Ben J. Slotman and Roberto Martínez-Álvarez

Journal of Neurosurgery. Posted online on February 23, 2018; DOI: 10.3171/2017.8.JNS17749.

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Gamma Ventral Capsulotomy in Intractable Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Steven A. Rasmussen, Georg Norén, Benjamin D. Greenberg, Richard Marsland, Nicole C. McLaughlin, Paul J. Malloy, Stephen P. Salloway, David R. Strong, Jane L. Eisen, Michael A. Jenike, Scott L. Rauch, Lee Baer, and Christer Lindquist

Biological Psychiatry. Published online on December 15, 2017; DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.11.034.

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Four-year Survival (and Counting) after Stereotactic Radiosurgery to Nearly 100 Brain Metastases: A Case Report

Robin Saiki, Amanda Brill, Robert E. Breeze

Cureus. Published: January 23, 2018. DOI: 10.7759/cureus.2103 

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Gamma Knife radiosurgery of saccular aneurysms in a rabbit model

Mark D. Meadowcroft, Timothy K. Cooper, Sebastian Rupprecht, Thaddeus C. Wright, Elizabeth E. Neely, Michele Ferenci, Weimin Kang, Qing X. Yang, Robert E. Harbaugh, James R. Connor, and James McInerney

Journal of Neurosurgery (2018) Jan 12:1-11. DOI: 10.3171/2017.6.JNS17722

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A Multi-institutional Prospective Observational Study of Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Patients With Multiple Brain Metastases (JLGK0901 Study Update): Irradiation-related Complications and Long-term Maintenance of Mini-Mental State Examination Scores

Masaaki Yamamoto, Toru Serizawa, Yoshinori Higuchi, Yasunori Sato, Jun Kawagishi, Kazuhiro Yamanaka, Takashi Shuto, Atsuya Akabane, Hidefumi Jokura, Shoji Yomo, Osamu Nagano and Hidefumi Aoyama

Int J Radiation Oncol Biol Phys, Vol. 99, No. 1, pp. 31-40, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2017.04.037

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Application of Time-Resolved 3D Digital Subtraction Angiography to Plan Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation Radiosurgery

K.-K. Chen, W.-Y. Guo, H.-C. Yang, C.-J. Lin, C.-H.F. Wu, S. Gehrisch, M. Kowarschik, Y.-T. Wu, and W.-Y. Chung

American Journal of Neuroradiology (2017) Published online January 26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A5074

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Upfront boost Gamma Knife “leading-edge” radiosurgery to FLAIR MRI–defined tumor migration pathways in 174 patients with glioblastoma multiforme: a 15-year assessment of a novel therapy

Christopher M. Duma, Brian S. Kim, Peter V. Chen, Marianne E. Plunkett, Ralph Mackintosh, Marlon S. Mathews, Ryan M. Casserly, Gustavo A. Mendez, Daniel J. Furman, Garrett Smith, Nathan Oh, Chad A. Caraway, Ami R. Sanathara, Robert O. Dillman, Azzurra-Sky Riley, David Weiland, Lian Stemler, Ruslana Cannell, Daniela Alexandru Abrams, Alexa Smith, Christopher M. Owen, Burton Eisenberg and Michael Brant-Zawadzki

Journal of Neurosurgery (2016) Suppl 1, 125:40–49. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3171/2016.7.GKS161460

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Editorial: Vestibular schwannoma radiosurgery: progression or pseudoprogression?

Jean Régis, Christine Delsanti, and Pierre-Hugues Roche

Journal of Neurosurgery (2016) Published online November 25. DOI: 10.3171/2016.7.JNS161236

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Pretreatment growth rate as a predictor of tumor control following Gamma Knife radiosurgery for sporadic vestibular schwannoma

Alexander P. Marston, Jeffrey T. Jacob, Matthew L. Carlson, Bruce E. Pollock, Colin L. W. Driscoll and Michael J. Link

Journal of Neurosurgery (2016) Published online November 25. DOI: 10.3171/2016.5.JNS153013

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Effect of Radiosurgery Alone vs Radiosurgery With Whole Brain Radiation Therapy on Cognitive Function in Patients With 1 to 3 Brain Metastases A Randomized Clinical Trial

Paul D. Brown, Kurt Jaeckle, Karla V. Ballman, Elana Farace, Jane H. Cerhan, S. Keith Anderson, Xiomara W. Carrero, Fred G. Barker II, Richard Deming, Stuart H. Burri, Cynthia Ménard, Caroline Chung, Volker W. Stieber, Bruce E. Pollock, Evanthia Galanis, Jan C. Buckner and Anthony L. Asher

JAMA (2016) Vol. 4, pp. 401-409. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.9839

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Timing and Type of Immune Checkpoint Therapy Affect the Early Radiographic Response of Melanoma Brain Metastases to Stereotactic Radiosurgery

Jack M. Qian, James B. Yu Harriet M. Kluger and Veronica L. S. Chiang

Cancer (2016) Oct;122(19):3051-8.doi: 10.1002/cncr.30138

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Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Brainstem Metastases: An International Cooperative Study to Define Response and Toxicity

Daniel M. Trifiletti, Cheng-Chia Lee, Hideyuki Kano, Jonathan Cohen, James Janopaul-Naylor, Michelle Alonso-Basanta, John Y.K. Lee, Gabriela Simonova, Roman Liscak, Amparo Wolf, Svetlana Kvint, Inga S. Grills, Matthew Johnson, Kang-Du Liu, Chung-Jung Lin, David Mathieu, France He´roux, Danilo Silva, Mayur Sharma, Christopher P. Cifarelli, Christopher N. Watson, Joshua D. Hack, John G. Golfinos, Douglas Kondziolka, Gene Barnett, L. Dade Lunsford and Jason P. Sheehan

International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology & Physics (2016) Vol. 96, No. 2, pp. 280-288. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.06.009 

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The biology of radiosurgery and its clinical applications for brain tumors

Douglas Kondziolka, Samuel M. Shin, Andrew Brunswick, Irene Kim, Joshua S. Silverman.

Neuro-Oncology (2015) Vol. 17, Iss. 1, pp. 29-44. DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/nou284

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Radiobiological basis of SBRT and SRS

CW Song, MS Kim, LC Cho, K Dusenbery, PW Sperduto.

International Journal of Clinical Oncology (2014) Vol. 19, Iss. 4, pp 570-578. DOI: 10.1007/s10147-014-0717-z 


(EDITORIAL) A Hypothesis: Indirect Cell Death in the Radiosurgery Era

Paul W. Sperduto, Chang W. Song, John P. Kirkpatrick and Eli Glatstein.

International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology & Physics (2015) Vol. 91, No. 1, pp. 11-13. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2014.08.355

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The role of the concept of biologically effective dose (BED) in treatment planning in radiosurgery

William T. Millar, John W. Hopewell, Ian Paddick, Christer Lindquist, Håkan Nordström, Pär Lidberg, Jonas Gårding.

Physica Medica (2015) pp. 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmp.2015.04.008

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JNS Proceedings of the 17th International LGKS Meeting

Presenters at the 17th Leksell Gamma Knife Society Meeting

Special Supplements, December 2014 / Vol. 121 / No. Suppl. 2 / Pages 1-240.

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Variable dose interplay effects across radiosurgical apparatus in treating multiple brain metastases

Lijun Ma, Alan Nichol, Sabbir Hossain, Brian Wang, Paula Petti, Rosemin Vellani, Chris Higby, Salahuddin Ahmad, Igor Barani, Dennis C. Shrieve, David A. Larson, Arjun Sahgal

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (2014), Vol. 9, Iss. 6, pp. 1079-1086. 

DOI: 10.1007/s11548-014-1001-4

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SRS for patients with multiple brain metastases: a multi-institutional prospective observational study

Masaaki Yamamoto, Toru Serizawa, Takashi Shuto, Atsuya Akabane, Yoshinori Higuchi, Jun Kawagishi, Kazuhiro Yamanaka, Yasunori Sato, Hidefumi Jokura, Shoji Yomo, Osamu Nagano, Hiroyuki Kenai, Akihito Moriki, Satoshi Suzuki, Yoshihisa Kida, Yoshiyasu Iwai, Motohiro Hayashi, Hiroaki Onishi, Masazumi Gondo, Mitsuya Sato, Tomohide Akimitsu, Kenji Kubo, Yasuhiro Kikuchi, Toru Shibasaki, Tomoaki Goto, Masami Takanashi, Yoshimasa Mori, Kintomo Takakura, Naokatsu Saeki, Etsuo Kunieda, Hidefumi Aoyama, Suketaka Momoshima, Kazuhiro Tsuchiya.

The Lancet Oncology (2014) Vol. 15, Iss. 4, pp. 387-395. DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(14)70061-0