Blackburn VES, Sibtain A, Sabin HI. The use of ionising radiation for the purpose of arresting external haemorrhage from an intracranial mass lesion.
Br J Neurosurg 2013;
28:520-2. [PMID:
24304265 DOI:
10.3109/02688697.2013.865710]
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Abstract
External bleeding from any form of tumour of the central nervous system is unusual. We present a case where this difficult problem was controlled by the use of Gamma Irradiation from a focused delivery system.
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