Targeting adjuvant brachytherapy for a superior sulcus tumor: Report of two cases

Surgery Today

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 152-155

  Ohta, Yasuhiko ^a   Yashiki, Yoshinori ^a   Go, Tetsuhiko ^a   Watanabe, Shun Ichi ^a   Oda, Makoto ^a   Takanaka, Tsuyoshi ^a   Nishijima, Hiroshi ^a   Watanabe, Yoh ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Lung cancer; Pancoast tumor; Sulcus superior tumor

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CISPLATIN; MITOMYCIN C; VINBLASTINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035111697     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950170200     Document Type: Article

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