Therapy judgment

The main therapy judgment on Gamma knife is benign and malignant tumors, located in a scull cavity, brain metastases, vascular malformations, trigeminal neuralgia, uvea melanoma and other diseases.

Treatment with Gamma knife is NOT allowed in the following cases:

1. Maximum size of a neoplasm exceeds 30 mm (except patients with arteriovenous malformations)
2. Hard decompensated patient`s condition
3. Continuum of acute symptoms of brain compression
4. Raised intracranial pressure

Brain tumors

• Acoustic tumors
• Meningiomae of any locations
• Pituitary adenomae
• Metastases single and multiple
• Craniopharyngiomae
• Recidivating of glial tumors, or residual tumors after surgical removal, radiation therapy and chemotherapy
• Chordomae
• Neurinomae of V, VII, IX, X, XI, XII nerves
• Pinealomae
• Germinomae
• Hemangioblastomae
• Hemangiopericytomae
• Angiomyoneuroma

Brain vascular diseases

• Arteriovenous malformations
• Cavernomae
• Hemangiomae

Brain functional diseases

• Trigeminal neuralgia
• Parkinsonism and essential tremor
• Temporal lobe epilepsy
• Multifocal epilepsy
• Pain syndrome on thalamic syndrome
• Pain syndrome on multifocal metastatic lesion of axial skeleton bones

Eye diseases

• Amphiblestrodes melanoma
• Progressive glaucoma