Recurrent head and neck cancer: Retreatment of previously irradiated areas with combined chemotherapy and radiation therapy - Results of a prospective study

Radiology

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 371-376

  Schaefer, Ulrich ^a   Micke, Oliver ^a   Schueller, Patrick ^a   Willich, Normann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Head and neck neoplasms; Head and neck neoplasms, therapy; Radiations, exposure to patients and personnel

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; HYDROXYUREA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DERMATITIS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; JUGULAR VEIN; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SURVIVAL RATE; TRISMUS; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0033905717     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.216.2.r00au04371     Document Type: Article

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