Salvage treatment for inoperable neck nodes in head and neck cancer using combined iridium-192 brachytherapy and surgical reconstruction

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1620-1622

  Cornes, P G S ^a,b   Cox, H J ^a   Rhys Evans, P R ^a   Breach, N M ^a   Henk, J M ^a  

^a ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NECK DISSECTION; NECK METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION NECROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGERY, PLASTIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029906467     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800831141     Document Type: Article

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