Radiosurgery
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radiosurgery-254-5619342
title:
Radiosurgery
text:
Radiosurgery is surgery using radiation, that is, the destruction of precisely selected areas of tissue using ionizing radiation rather than excision with a blade. Like other forms of radiation therapy, it is usually used to treat cancer. Radiosurgery was originally defined by the Swedish neurosurgeon Lars Leksell as "a single high dose fraction of radiation, stereotactically directed to an intracranial region of interest". In stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), the word "stereotactic" refers to a
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Surgical Specialty
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosurgery
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date modified:
2023-12-29T08:43:06Z
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