Some treatments for brain and spine tumors traditionally have involved restraining a patient with a heavy immobilization device and pins that pierce the skin and embed into the skull to ensure the ...

A frameless stereotactic head frame mask was prepared to immobilize the head during SRS. During treatment the patients were immobilized with the same frame and the 6D positional accuracy was checked ...

The use of SBRT for extracranial extra-base-of-skull head and neck cancers has been gradually increasing over the past few years as evidenced by an increase in the number of publications from various ...

A week after graduating from high school, Katherine Coit had brain surgery to remove an abnormal tangle of blood vessels that were bleeding in her brain. A week after graduating from high school, ...

Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) offers a less invasive way to eliminate tremors caused by Parkinson's disease and essential tremor than deep brain stimulation (DBS) and radiofrequency (RF) treatments, ...

Cet: Cetuximab; CR: Complete response; Hpx: Hypopharynx; LN: Lymph node; LRC: Loco-regional control; Med: Median; Npx: Nasopharynx; Opx: Oropharynx; OS: Overall ...

DALLAS, Sept. 7, 2006 -- A week after graduating from high school, Katherine Coit had brain surgery to remove an abnormal tangle of blood vessels that were bleeding in her brain. The potentially ...