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Gamma knife surgery for recurrent solitary metastasis of a cerebral hypernephroma: case report
1Department of Neurosurgery, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Neurosurgery
|November 1, 1989
Abstract:
Gamma knife surgery employing a central dose of 70 Gy and a peripheral dose of 25 Gy caused progressive necrosis and shrinkage of a recurrent solitary metastasis of a cerebral hypernephroma, as verified by computed tomographic scan 2 and 4 months after treatment. Gamma knife surgery was an effective palliative treatment for this cerebral metastasis and was an alternative to craniotomy with microsurgical removal.