Half-body irradiation in the treatment of multiple myeloma: A report of nine cases

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Volumn 82, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 588-591

  Plesničar, Andrej ^a   Jereb, Berta ^a   Zaletel Kragelj, Lijana ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

half body irradiation; multiple myeloma

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARMUSTINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; MELPHALAN; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PANCYTOPENIA; PNEUMONIA; VOMITING;

EID: 0030433499     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030089169608200615     Document Type: Article

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