Outcome predictors of Gamma Knife surgery for melanoma brain metastases. Clinical article.

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Published in J Neurosurg on June 04, 2010

Authors

Donald N Liew1, Hideyuki Kano, Douglas Kondziolka, David Mathieu, Ajay Niranjan, John C Flickinger, John M Kirkwood, Ahmad Tarhini, Stergios Moschos, L Dade Lunsford

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

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