{"title":"Forty years at the National Centre for Stereotactic Radiosurgery a historical vignette 1985-2025.","authors":"Julian Cahill, Matthias Radatz","doi":"10.1080/02688697.2025.2563120","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The first Gamma Knife Stereotactic Radiosurgery treatment in the UK was carried out at the National Centre for Stereotactic Radiosurgery in Sheffield, on a 13-year-old girl with an Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM), which had haemorrhaged twice previously, on the 18th of September 1985. To acknowledge the fortieth anniversary of this historic event, it is timely to look at the department's history and how an experimental treatment with limited validation at the time, came to the UK. What later became the National Centre for Stereotactic Radiosurgery was instrumental in the early development of the technology which is now used as a first line treatment option for many intracranial pathologies in over 360 units around the world and has been used to complete over two million treatments over a wide range of different pathologies (Courtesy of the Leksell Gamma Knife<sup>®</sup> Society).</p>","PeriodicalId":9261,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Neurosurgery","volume":" ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"British Journal of Neurosurgery","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02688697.2025.2563120","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"CLINICAL NEUROLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The first Gamma Knife Stereotactic Radiosurgery treatment in the UK was carried out at the National Centre for Stereotactic Radiosurgery in Sheffield, on a 13-year-old girl with an Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM), which had haemorrhaged twice previously, on the 18th of September 1985. To acknowledge the fortieth anniversary of this historic event, it is timely to look at the department's history and how an experimental treatment with limited validation at the time, came to the UK. What later became the National Centre for Stereotactic Radiosurgery was instrumental in the early development of the technology which is now used as a first line treatment option for many intracranial pathologies in over 360 units around the world and has been used to complete over two million treatments over a wide range of different pathologies (Courtesy of the Leksell Gamma Knife® Society).
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The British Journal of Neurosurgery is a leading international forum for debate in the field of neurosurgery, publishing original peer-reviewed articles of the highest quality, along with comment and correspondence on all topics of current interest to neurosurgeons worldwide.
Coverage includes all aspects of case assessment and surgical practice, as well as wide-ranging research, with an emphasis on clinical rather than experimental material. Special emphasis is placed on postgraduate education with review articles on basic neurosciences and on the theory behind advances in techniques, investigation and clinical management. All papers are submitted to rigorous and independent peer-review, ensuring the journal’s wide citation and its appearance in the major abstracting and indexing services.
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