A Review of the Clinical Outcomes for Patients Diagnosed with Brainstem Metastasis and Treated with Stereotactic Radiosurgery

Table 2

Radiation-induced complications.

Study	No. of patients with complications	Complication type
Yoo et al. [4]	1	Hemorrhagic tumor increase
Valery et al. [11]	4	Acute headache
Hatiboglu et al. [1]	12	Hemiparesis, hemiparesis with cranial nerve deficit, and hemorrhage
Kelly et al. [12]	2*	Confusion, ataxia
Koyfman et al. [5]	3	Weakness, ataxia, bleeding
Lorenzoni et al. [13]	0	NA
Kased et al. [14]	4	NR
Hussain et al. [8]	1	Right-sided hemiparesis
Fuentes et al. [15]	0	NA
Yen et al. [10]	0	NA
Shuto et al. [9]	2	NR
Huang et al. [7]	7	Nausea, vomiting, dizziness, seizures

 *Only reported RTOG Grade III and IV toxicities.
NR indicates not reported.