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Role of stereotactic radiosurgery and fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy in pediatric brain tumors.

Lo SS, Fakiris AJ, Abdulrahman R, Henderson MA, Chang EL, Suh JH, Timmerman RD

Department of Radiation Medicine, Arthur G James Cancer Hospital, Ohio State University Medical Center, 300 West 10th Avenue, Ste 088A, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. simon.lo@osumc.edu

Brain tumors are the most common solid tumor in childhood. Surgery and/or fractionated radiotherapy are conventional treatment modalities. Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (FSRT) are advanced radiation therapy techniques that have been frequently used in adults with brain tumors but they are less frequently used in pediatric patients. SRS and FSRT can potentially add to the armamentarium against brain tumors in children. This article will review the role of SRS and FSRT in the management of pediatric brain tumors.

Published 19 December 2007 in Expert Rev Neurother, 8(1): 121-32.
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