CLIN-RADIATION THERAPY

ABSTRACT: Skull base tumors are challenging lesions for neurosurgeons, but these cannot always be removed via surgical resection. Helical tomotherapy (HT) delivers small beamlets of photons in continuous rotational treatment arcs and has an advantage of soft-tissue verification using computed tomography. We present our experience with HT for skull base tumors when the tumors were not accessible via surgery or recurred after surgery. From December 2005 to October 2010, 60 patients underwent HT for brain tumors. Among them, 13 patients had skull base tumors; four patients had petroclival meningiomas; two patients had cerebellopontine angle (CPA) meningiomas; two patients had acoustic schwannomas; one patient had foramen magnum meningioma; one patient had sphenoid meningioma; one patient had cavernous

SUBMITTER: McGovern S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3488792 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature