## Abstract ## Background. The management of skull base recurrence of salivary gland tumors is challenging, because complete surgical resection and fractionated reirradiation are seldom possible. Experience is being gained with radiosurgery for this indication. ## Methods. From 1994β2000, eight
107 Radiosurgery for skull base malignancies and nasopharyngeal carcinoma
β Scribed by Anthony J. Cmelak; M.D. Richard; S. Cox; John R. Adler; Willard Fee; Don R. Goffinet
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 107 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-3016
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