Gamma Knife Surgery: A Guide for Referring Physicians

✍ Scribed by Jeremy C. Ganz M. A. (Cantab), Ph. D. (Bergen), F. R. C. S. (London) (auth.)

Publisher: Springer Vienna
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Leaves: 173
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-6
Principles of Stereotaxy....Pages 7-18
Ionising Radiation and Its Physical and Chemical Effects on Living Tissue....Pages 19-34
Biological Effects of Ionising Radiation....Pages 35-49
Ionising Radiation and Clinical Practice....Pages 50-54
Development of the Gamma Knife....Pages 55-65
Radiophysics, Radiobiology and the Gamma Knife....Pages 66-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Gamma Knife Radiosurgery: A Patient’s Eye View....Pages 79-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Diverse Clinical Aspects....Pages 87-96
Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations....Pages 97-111
Acoustic Schwannomas....Pages 112-121
Gamma Knife Applications in and around the Pituitary Fossa....Pages 122-132
Meningiomas....Pages 133-142
Miscellaneous Indications for Gamma Knife Radiosurgery....Pages 143-152
The Future....Pages 153-155
Back Matter....Pages 157-166

✦ Subjects

Neurosurgery;Neurology;Oncology;Radiotherapy;Otorhinolaryngology;Biophysics and Biological Physics

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Gamma Knife Surgery

📁 Gamma Knife Surgery

✍ Jeremy C. Ganz M. A. (Cantab), Ph. D. (Bergen), F. R. C. S. (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 Springer-Verlag Wien 🌐 English

<p>This book attempts to combine many different threads into a comprehensible whole. Since the subject is the Gamma Knife and the author is a neurosurgeon, the field of clinical interest is restricted to intracranial pathology. The discipline of radiosurgery now applies to patients who may reasonabl

Rational Phytotherapy: A Reference Guide

📁 Rational Phytotherapy: A Reference Guide for Physicians and Pharmacists

✍ Prof. Dr. med. Volker Schulz, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Rudolf Hänsel, Mark Blumenthal 📂 Library 📅 2004 🏛 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 🌐 English

<p><P>This book is a practice-oriented introduction to phytotherapy. Methodically classified by organic systems and fields of application, it offers a quick insight into dosage, form of application and effects of the most important herbal remedies. Only those herbal remedies that are of pharmacologi

Gamma Knife Brain Surgery (Progress in N

📁 Gamma Knife Brain Surgery (Progress in Neurological Surgery Volume 14)

✍ L. Dade Lunsford, D. Kondziolka, John C., M.D. Flickinger 📂 Library 📅 1998 🏛 S. Karger AG (Switzerland) 🌐 English

This work looks at the use of gamma knife technology in surgery, its radiobiologic considerations, principles of dose prescription, and uses in vascular radiosurgery and benign tumour radiosurgery.

Gamma Knife Neurosurgery

📁 Gamma Knife Neurosurgery

✍ Jeremy C. Ganz 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Springer 🌐 English

Today, over 500,000 patients have been treated world wide in 250 Gamma Knife Centres in 37 countries each one treating between 150 and 700 patients a year. The current book serves as a textbook, training manual and reference book for those involved in Gamma Knife practice covering the theoretical

Gamma Knife Neurosurgery

📁 Gamma Knife Neurosurgery

✍ Jeremy C. Ganz (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Springer-Verlag Wien 🌐 English

<p>Today, over 500,000 patients have been treated world wide in 250 Gamma Knife Centres in 37 countries each one treating between 150 and 700 patients a year. The current book serves as a textbook, training manual and reference book for those involved in Gamma Knife practice covering the theoretical

Gamma Knife Radiosurgery

📁 Gamma Knife Radiosurgery

✍ D. Mathieu 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Intech 🌐 English