A new, simple method of making a spacer in interstitial brachytherapy for mobile tongue cancer

Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology, oral radiology, and endodontics

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 519-521

  Yuasa, Kenji ^a   Kawazu, Toshiyuki ^a   Morita, Masahiro ^a   Uehara, Satoru ^a,c   Kunitake, Naonobu ^b   Kanda, Shigenobu ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYUSHU MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; RADIUM; RESIN;

ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; BRACHYTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; SPLINT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE TUMOR;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; OSTEORADIONECROSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIUM; RESINS, SYNTHETIC; SPLINTS; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034169918     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1079-2104(00)70134-X     Document Type: Article

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