Re-resection with brachytherapy for locally recurrent soft tissue sarcoma arising in a previously radiated field

Cancer Journal from Scientific American

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 26-33

  Pearlstone, David B ^a   Janjan, Nora A ^a   Feig, Barry W ^a   Yasko, Alan W ^a   Hunt, Kelly K ^a   Pollock, Raphael E ^a   Lawyer, Ann ^a   Horton, John ^a   Pisters, Peter W T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Local recurrence; Soft tissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; MALE; NEURALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TREATMENT PLANNING; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032975375     PISSN: 10814442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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