Intracranial Stereotactic Radiosurgery / Gamma knife radiosurgery

Radiosurgery (knife-less surgery or gamma knife radiosurgery) is a minimally invasive, pain-less technique performed as an outpatient intervention. The day after radiosurgery the patient can resume his everyday activities avoiding the need for hospitalization including Intensive Care Unit stay as well as, the risk of microsurgical complications such as meningitis, intracranial haemorrhage, paralysis, death etc.

Stereotactic  Radiosurgery involves the delivery of finely focused, high dose of radiation to well-defined, targets in the brain in one to five sessions. It is ideally performed by a multi-disciplinary team consisting of a Neurosurgeon trained in stereotactic radiosurgery, a Radiation oncologist, and a Medical Physicist. Stereotactic Radiosurgery is especially effective as a primary treatment or adjuvant to microsurgery for selected patients with: 

1. Brain metastasis,
2. Surgical cavities after brain metastasis resection,
3. WHO Grade I Meningiomas,
4. Meningioma residual after partial microsurgical resection,
5. Recurrent meningiomas
6. Recurrent or residual WHO Grade II meningiomas,
7. Vestibular schwannomas, 
8. Non-functional pituitary adenomas,
9. Recurrent or residual functional (hormone-secreting) pituitary adenomas in patients with Cushing's syndrome, acromegaly and hyperprolactinemia
10. Medication resistant Trigeminal neuralgia, 
11. Chordomas,
12. Chondrosarcomas,
13. Craniopharyngiomas,
14. Hemangioblastomas,
15. Recurrent GBM,
16. Glomus tumours
17. Solitary fibrous tumors (Hemangiopericytomas)
18. Cerebral arteriovenous malformations,
19. Cerebral cavernous malformations,
20. Intracranial arterio-venous fistulas,
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