Single brain metastasis: whole-brain irradiation plus either radiosurgery or neurosurgical resection.

  • Dirk Rades
  • Theo Veninga
  • Dagmar Hornung
  • Oliver Wittkugel
  • Steven E Schild
  • Jan Gliemroth

Abstract

The current study was conducted to compare neurosurgical resection (NR) followed by whole-brain irradiation (WBI) (NR + WBI) with WBI followed by radiosurgery (WBI + RS) in patients with a single brain metastasis.

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number4
ISSN0008-543X
Publication statusPublished - 2012
pubmed 21761403