Gamma knife radiosurgery in 11 hemangioblastomas

摘要: ✓ One suprasellar, one mesencephalic, and nine cerebellar hemangioblastomas were treated with the gamma knife in 10 patients (median age 48 years) Stockholm between 1978 1993. Four had von Hippel—Lindau disease, a dominant inherited trait predisposing to multiple hemangioblastomas. Six radiotherapy at median margin dose of 25 Gy (20–35 Gy) before 1990 next five (5–19 Gy). Computerized tomography or magnetic resonance images available for 11 follow-up time 26 months (4–68 months) after radiosurgery. The solid part six shrank 30 months, whereas four unchanged 14 months. Five an adjoining cyst three these cysts be evacuated solitary hemangioblastoma later developed de novo that also needed evacuation. patient two hemang...