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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jun 14.
Published in final edited form as: World Neurosurg. 2013 Feb 10;82(6):1250–1255. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2013.02.025

Table 2.

Gamma Knife Radiosurgery and Other Treatment Data

Total number GK procedures 188
Total number metastases treated with GK 550
Median number GK treatments per patient 1.0
Median number isocenters at first GK treatment 6.0
Median number metastases treated at first GK 2.0
Median minimum marginal dose (Gy) at first GK 19
Number patients receiving GK with:
 1 treatment (number, %) 85 (66)
 2 treatments (number, %) 35 (27)
 3 treatments (number, %)   5 (4)
 4 treatments (number, %)   3 (2)
 >4 treatments (number, %)   1 (1)
Patients receiving therapy with:
 Chemotherapy, initial (number, %) 52 (40)
 Chemotherapy, salvage (number, %) 19 (15)
 Biologic agents, initial (number, %) 43 (33)
 Biologic agents, salvage (number, %) 15 (12)
 WBRT, initial (number, %) 36 (28)
 WBRT, salvage (number, %) 25 (19)
 GK, boost after WBRT (number, %)   4 (3)
 GK, salvage after WBRT (number, %) 32 (25)
 Craniotomy, initial (number, %) 40 (31)
Craniotomy, salvage (number, %) 13 (10)

GK, gamma knife radiosurgery; WBRT, whole-brain radiation therapy.