Gamma knife is based on the principle of stereometric orientation, the normal or diseased tissues in the skull selectively identified as the target, the use of 60Co generated gamma radiation for a one-time high dose of focused irradiation, so as to produce focal necrosis or functional changes to achieve the purpose of treatment of disease. Gamma knife is divided into head gamma knife and body gamma knife, of course, the application of head gamma knife need to strictly grasp the indications, then, what are the diseases suitable for treatment with head gamma knife?
Head Gamma Knife clinical indications: 1, 30 mm or less of auditory neuroma, pituitary tumor, meningioma, pineal tumor, lymphoma and other intracranial tumors; 2, intracranial arteriovenous malformations; 3, cavernous hemangioma; 4, some surgically inoperable benign tumors; 5, intracranial metastatic cancer; 6, functional neurosurgery diseases: trigeminal neuralgia, intractable pain and other functional diseases.
7, inoperable (intra-brainstem tumors); 8, some extra-cranial tumors of the eye, skull, head and neck.