Early results of pulsed-dose-rate interstitial brachytherapy for head and neck malignancies after limited surgery

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-30

  Strnad, Vratislav ^a   Lotter, Michael ^a   Grabenbauer, Gerhard ^a   Sauer, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Head and neck tumors; Pulsed dose rate brachytherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TISSUE NECROSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECROSIS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 0033961716     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(99)00417-4     Document Type: Article

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