Acute and late morbidity of using a breast positioning ring in women with large/pendulous breasts

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 277-281

  Bentel, Gunilla C ^a   Marks, Lawrence B ^a   Whiddon, Curtis S ^a   Prosnitz, Leonard R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cosmesis; Device; Large breast; Morbidity; Obese; Positioning ring; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DESQUAMATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTALGIA; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION INJURY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 0032891516     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(99)00007-9     Document Type: Article

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