High-dose rate interstitial brachytherapy for stage I-II tongue cancer

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 667-670

  Umeda, Masahiro ^a   Komatsubara, Hideki ^a   Nishimatsu, Naruki ^a,b   Yokoo, Satoshi ^a   Shibuya, Yasuyuki ^a,b   Komori, Takahide ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Kobe Steel Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; TONGUE TUMOR;

BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OSTEORADIONECROSIS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034322299     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/moe.2000.110087     Document Type: Article

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