The efficacy of hyperthermia combined with radiation therapy for high-grade soft tissue sarcoma

Anticancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2 B, 1998, Pages 1319-1323

  Nakano, Hirotaka ^a   Higaki, Shozo ^a   Tateishi, Akio ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Histological effect; Hyperthermia; Radiation therapy; Soft tissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031803279     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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