Gamma Knife radiosurgery Indications
Gamma Knife radiosurgery for acromegaly.
Gamma Knife radiosurgery for arteriovenous malformation
Gamma Knife radiosurgery for cavernous malformation.
Gamma Knife radiosurgery for Parkinson's Disease.
Gamma Knife radiosurgery for glioblastoma
Gamma Knife radiosurgery for intracranial metastases.
Gamma Knife radiosurgery for meningioma.
Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Pineal Region Tumor
Vestibular schwannoma Gamma Knife radiosurgery.
Gamma Knife radiosurgery for trigeminal neuralgia.
Epilepsy
The vast amount of clinical material and long-term evaluation now support the use of GK surgery in small hypothalamic hamartomas and media temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) when the patient is at risk of verbal memory loss 1).
1)
Régis J, Arkha Y, Yomo S, Bartolomei F, Peragut JC, Chauvel P. [Radiosurgery
for drug-resistant epilepsies: state of the art, results and perspectives].
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2008 Apr 15. Review. French. PubMed PMID: 18417166.