A status of radiotherapy for cerebral metastases

Frontiers of Radiation Therapy and Oncology

Volumn 33, Issue , 1999, Pages 318-326

  Engenhart Cabillic, R ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 0032667689     PISSN: 00719676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000061214     Document Type: Article

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