Radiosurgery

Radiosurgery is a medical procedure that allows non-invasive treatment of benign and malignant tumors and other brain pathologies, such as trigeminal neuralgia and some cases of epilepsy. The initial application of radiosurgery was in treatment of lesions in the brain, a technique also known as stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). The compound word stereotactic is made up from Greek words: στερεος, which means solid, and τακτική (hinted τηχνη) which means "ability in disposition," meaning "tactic" as used in military language. In fact radiosurgery is stereotactic only if the distribution of radiation beams is in three dimensions and not in two as in traditional radiotherapy. In addition to cancer, it has also been shown to be beneficial for the treatment of some non-cancerous conditions, including functional disorders such as arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) and trigeminal neuralgia.