Radiation-induced acute immediate nuclear abnormalities in oral cancer cells: Serial cytologic evaluation

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1084-1090

  Bhattathiri, Narayanan V ^a,b   Bindu, Lalithambika ^a,b   Remani, Prathapan ^a,c   Chandralekha, Bharathykkutty ^a,c   Nair, Krishnan M ^a,c  

^a REGIONAL CANCER CENTRE   (India)

^b Section of Clinical Radiobiology

^c Department of Cancer Research ^*

Author keywords

Cell nucleus; Mouth neoplasms; Neoplasms; Radiation induced

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SCHOOL CHILD; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

EID: 0031678613     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000332093     Document Type: Article

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