Patterns of relapse and late toxicity after resection and whole-brain radiotherapy for solitary brain metastases

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 174, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 275-278

  Nieder, Carsten ^a   Schwerdtfeger, Karsten ^a   Steudel, Wolf Ingo ^a   Schnabel, Klaus ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Late toxicity; Neurosurgery; Radiotherapy; Relapse

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; BRAIN SURGERY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; NEUROSURGERY; RADIATION SICKNESS; RADIOSURGERY; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

EID: 0031807426     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03038721     Document Type: Article

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