Intraoperative radiotherapy in the combined-modality management of pancreatic cancer

American Surgeon

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1043-1049

  Schuricht, Alan L ^a   Spitz, Francis ^b   Barbot, Donna ^c   Rosato, Francis ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031789823     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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