Applications of brachytherapy in head and neck cancer

Seminars in Surgical Oncology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 177-184

  Harrison, Louis B ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

brachytherapy; head and neck neoplasms; lip neoplasms; nasopharyngeal neoplasms; quality of life; radiation dosage; radioisotopes; squamous cell carcinoma; tongue neoplasms

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125; IRIDIUM 192;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIP NEOPLASMS; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; SURVIVAL RATE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030960639     PISSN: 87560437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2388(199705/06)13:3<177::AID-SSU4>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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