Radiation Therapy for Uterine Cervix Cancer: Importance of evaluation of pre-treatment tumor size with MR imaging

Nippon Acta Radiologica

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 505-509

  Sasaoka, Masahiro ^a   Nomoto, Yoshihito ^a   Shoji, Kazufusa ^a   Kobayashi, Shigeki ^a   Toyota, Shun ^b   Nakagawa, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Mie Pref Central Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Cancer; MR imaging; Uterine cervix

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031179847     PISSN: 00480428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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