Using a belly board device to reduce the small bowel volume within pelvic radiation fields in women with postoperatively treated cervical carcinoma

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 271-275

  Ghosh, Kris ^a   Padilla, Luis A ^a   Murray, Karuna P ^a   Downs, Levi S ^a   Carson, Linda F ^b   Dusenbery, Kathryn E ^c  

^a Division of Gynecologic Oncology   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION SHIELD; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; SMALL INTESTINE; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

EID: 0034765040     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gyno.2001.6295     Document Type: Article

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