The use of ionising radiation for the purpose of arresting external haemorrhage from an intracranial mass lesion

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.

Keywords::

• Gamma Knife
• glomus tumour
• haemorrhage
• radiosurgery

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