Percutaneous brachytherapy for small-sized non-small cell lung cancer

Lung Cancer

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 169-174

  Imamura, Fumio ^a   Chatani, Masashi ^a   Nakayama, Tomio ^a   Uda, Hiroshi ^a   Nakamura, Shin ichiro ^a   Horai, Takeshi ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Iridium 192; Lung cancer; Percutaneous needle insertion

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INJECTION; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033059311     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5002(99)00028-8     Document Type: Article

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