Author/Editor		Velnar, Tomaž; Bošnjak, Roman
Title		Radiosurgical techniques for the treatment of brain neoplasms
Type		članek
Vol. and No.		Letnik no. 4, št. Vol. 8
Publication year		2018
Volume		str. 51-58
ISSN		2222-0682
Language		eng
Abstract		Radiotherapy has long been used as an adjunct to neurosurgery for the treatment of malignant and benign intracranial tumors and other intracranial lesions. Intracranial tumors can be irradiated in three different ways: I) fractional radiotherapy, II) stereotactic radiotherapy and III) stereotactic radiosurgery. The third is most often by means of a gamma knife or a specially designed linear accelerator. Additionally, radiosurgery is increasingly used in combination with systemic therapy to treat metastases.
Keywords		neurosurgical techniques radiotherapy stereotaxy gamma knife linear accelerator