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Stereotactic radiosurgery for arteriovenous malformations (AVM) of the brain was introduced by Steiner in 1970 at the Karolinska Institute. However, the concept of radio-surgery was coined by Leksell in 1951, when he first described his technique for the irradiation of a sharply delimited intracranial target with stereotactically directed narrow beams of ionizing radiation [7]. Today, radio-surgery can be defined as single-session irradiation of a predetermined target volume, causing destruction or a desired biological effect in this tissue volume without damage to surrounding tissue.
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Lindquist, C., Steiner, L. (1988). Stereotactic Radiosurgical Treatment of Arteriovenous Malformations. In: Lunsford, L.D. (eds) Modern Stereotactic Neurosurgery. Topics in neurological surgery, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1081-5_39
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