Radiation therapy for roentogenographically occult lung cancer by external beam irradiation and endobronchial high dose rate brachytherapy

Lung Cancer

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 183-189

  Furuta, Masaya ^a   Tsukiyama, Iwao ^a   Ohno, Tatsuya ^a   Katano, Susumu ^a   Yokoi, Kohei ^a   Sawafuji, Makoto ^a   Mori, Kiyoshi ^a   Tominaga, Keigo ^a  

^a TOCHIGI CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endobronchial brachytherapy; High dose rate; Iridium 192; Radiation therapy; Roentogenographically occult lung cancer

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; OCCULT CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRONCHI; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FIBER OPTICS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032883838     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5002(99)00059-8     Document Type: Article

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