Morbidity of adjuvant brachytherapy in soft tissue sarcoma of the extremity and superficial trunk

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1273-1279

  Alektiar, Kaled M ^a   Zelefsky, Michael J ^a   Brennan, Murray F ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Complications; Sarcoma

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LIMB TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REOPERATION; SEROMA; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TRUNK; WOUND; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REOPERATION; SARCOMA;

EID: 0034661769     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)00587-3     Document Type: Article

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