Peter C. Gerszten
University of Pittsburgh
201 Papers
1.2K Citations
Peter C. Gerszten is an academic researcher from University of Pittsburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Radiosurgery & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 178 publications.
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Papers
Radiosurgery for spinal metastases: clinical experience in 500 cases from a single institution.
TL;DR: The results indicate the potential of radiosurgery in the treatment of patients with spinal metastases, especially those with solitary sites of spine involvement, to improve long-term palliation.
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Reliability analysis of the epidural spinal cord compression scale.
Mark H. Bilsky,Ilya Laufer,Daryl R. Fourney,Michael W. Groff,Meic H. Schmidt,Péter Varga,Frank D. Vrionis,Yoshiya Yamada,Peter C. Gerszten,Timothy R. Kuklo +9 more
TL;DR: The ESCC scale provides a valid and reliable instrument that may be used to describe the degree of ESCC based on T2-weighted MR images and may beUsed to provide an ESCC classification scheme for multicenter clinical trial and outcome studies.
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International Spine Radiosurgery Consortium Consensus Guidelines for Target Volume Definition in Spinal Stereotactic Radiosurgery
Brett Cox,Daniel E. Spratt,Michael Lovelock,Mark H. Bilsky,Eric Lis,Samuel Ryu,Jason P. Sheehan,Peter C. Gerszten,Eric L. Chang,Iris C. Gibbs,Scott G. Soltys,Arjun Sahgal,Joseph O. Deasy,John C. Flickinger,Mubina Quader,Stefan A. Mindea,Yoshiya Yamada +16 more
TL;DR: Consensus recommendations include that the CTV should include abnormal marrow signal suspicious for microscopic invasion and an adjacent normal bony expansion to account for subclinical tumor spread in the marrow space.
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Radiotherapy and radiosurgery for metastatic spine disease: what are the options, indications, and outcomes?
TL;DR: A systematic review of the available evidence suggests that radiosurgery is safe and provides an incremental benefit over conventional radiotherapy with more durable symptomatic response and local control independent of histology, even in the setting of prior fractionated radiotherapy.
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Intracranial ependymomas of childhood: long-term outcome and prognostic factors.
Ian F. Pollack,Peter C. Gerszten,A J Martinez,Kim-Hung Lo,Barbara L. Shultz,A. L. Albright,Janine E. Janosky,Melvin Deutsch +7 more
TL;DR: A detailed outcome analysis was performed on 40 children with intracranial ependymomas treated at the same institution between 1975 and 1993 to identify those factors that were predictive of overall and progression-free survival as mentioned in this paper.
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