Intraoperative high dose rate brachytherapy in recurrent or metastatic colorectal carcinoma

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 16-22

  Nag, Subir ^a   Martinez Monge, Rafael ^a   Mills, Justin ^a   Bauer, Constance ^a   Grecula, John ^a   Nieroda, Carol ^a   Martin, Edward ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Colon cancer; Intraoperative high dose rate brachytherapy; Metastatic cancer; Rectal cancer; Recurrent cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031844944     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02303758     Document Type: Article

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