High dose rate afterloading intraluminal brachytherapy in malignant airway obstruction of lung cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 589-596

  Chang, Li Fen L ^a   Horvath, Jack ^b   Peyton, Woody ^b   Ling, Shih Shen ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST VINCENT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Endobronchial cancer; High dose rate brachytherapy; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ESOPHAGITIS; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0028205267     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0360-3016(94)90183-X     Document Type: Article

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