Radiation therapy for primary gallbladder cancer

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 44, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 1229-1239

  Todoroki, Takeshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

External beam radiation therapy; Gallbladder cancer; Intraoperative radiation therapy; Rationale for combining radiation and surgery

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030830119     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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