A radiological stereotactic technique developed for cutting or destroying tissue by high doses of radiation in place of surgical incisions. It was originally developed for neurosurgery on structures in the brain and its use gradually spread to radiation surgery on extracranial structures as well. The usual rigid needles or probes of stereotactic surgery are replaced with beams of ionizing radiation directed toward a target so as to achieve local tissue destruction.

Annotation

do not confuse with COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY using surgery + radiotherapy; coordinate with disease /radiother; gamma knife, CyberKnife & linear accelerator: index RADIOSURGERY /instrum & do not coordinate with GAMMA RAYS or PARTICLE ACCELERATORS unless particularly discussed

DUI

D016634 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0025350

Previous indexing

Stereotaxic Techniques (1971-1991)

History note

92

Public note

92