Eye preservation brachytherapy for orbital and adjacent tumors: Preliminary results

Frontiers of Radiation Therapy and Oncology

Volumn 30, Issue , 1997, Pages 56-64

  Kovacs G ^a,b   Rochels, R ^a   Mehdorn, H M ^a   Werner, J ^a   Wilhelm, R ^a   Kohr, P ^a   Kimmig, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b Department of Brachytherapy   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFANT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAXILLA SINUS CANCER; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBIT TUMOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION RESPONSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAXILLARY SINUS NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030629840     PISSN: 00719676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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