Repair capacity and kinetics of human skin during fractionated radiotherapy: Erythema, desquamation, and telangiectasia after 3 and 5 year's follow-up

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1989, Pages 169-188

  Turesson, Ingela ^a   Thames, Howard D ^b  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute radiation effect; Dose fractionation; Late radiation effect; Overall time effect; Radiotherapy; Repair capacity; Repair kinetic; Skin

Indexed keywords

BREAST CARCINOMA; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY REPAIR; RADIOTHERAPY; SKIN INJURY; TELANGIECTASIA;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL DIVISION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SKIN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TELANGIECTASIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0024314422     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-8140(89)90131-X     Document Type: Article

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