Radiation therapy in metastatic spinal cord compression. A prospective analysis of 105 consecutive patients

Cancer

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1991, Pages 1311-1317

  Maranzano, Ernesto ^a   Latini, Paolo ^a   Checcaglini, Franco ^a   Ricci, Stefano ^a   Panizza, Bianca Moira ^a   Aristei, Cynthia ^a   Perrucci, Elisabetta ^a   Beneventi, Sara ^b   Corgna, Enrichetta ^a   Tonato, Maurizio ^a  

^a POLICLINICO MONTELUCE   (Italy)

^b Department of Medical Physics ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NERVE BLOCK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0025973573     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19910301)67:5<1311::AID-CNCR2820670507>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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