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Neuro-oncology and Radiosurgery
Stereotactic Radiosurgery is a new technique for treating
certain diseases in brain without conventional brain surgery without making
an incision. This technique targets small doses of radiation to a single
location from several directions. Generally, only one treatment is required.
Traditional radiation therapy requires multiple treatments with time between
treatments so that the tissue surrounding the affected area can heal.
This procedure, stereotactic radiosurgery, which takes about half a day
and generally does not require an overnight hospital stay, has impacted
significantly on the treatment of certain intracranial lesions including
a number of vascular lesions such as arteriovenous malformation and both
benign and malignant brain tumors. Diseases treated by radiosurgery include
the following:
- Acoustic neuromas
- Benign tumors including many unresectable meningiomas
- Pituitary tumors and craniopharyngiomas
- Metastatic malignant brain tumors
- Malignant tumors of the cranial base and gliomas such as anaplastic
astrocytoma and glioblastoma multiforme
- Arterial venous malformations
- Trigeminal neuralgia
Indications for the use of radiosurgery have grown in the last five years
and it has been found effective for treating disorders that have otherwise
been considered inaccessible by conventional or on those patients for
whom conventional procedures are deemed medically inadvisable..
Our team utilizes the Robert
R. Smith Gamma Knife Center to perform stereotactic radiosurgery.
For more information please contact:
Jennifer Hood, RN
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Mississippi Medical Center
2500 North State Street
Jackson, MS 39216
(601)984-5723.
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