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DOI: 10.1590/S0004-27302007000800024
Patients with residual or recurrent Cushing’s disease receive external beam radiotherapy (RT) with the aim of achieving long-term tumour control and normalization of elevated hormone levels. Treatment is given either as conventional radiotherapy using conformal techniques or as stereotactic radiotherapy, which is either used as fractionated treatment (SCRT) or as single fraction radiosurgery (SRS). We describe the technical aspects of treatment and report a systematic review of the published literature on the efficacy and toxicity of conventional RT, SCRT and […]
Keywords: Cushing’s disease; Fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy; pituitary adenomas; Radiosurgery; Toxicity