Clinically evident fat necrosis in women treated with high-dose-rate brachytherapy alone for early-stage breast cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 107-111

  Akimoto, Tetsuo ^a   Nonaka, Tetsuo ^a   Ishikawa, Hitoshi ^a   Sakurai, Hideyuki ^a   Saitoh, Jun ichi ^a   Takahashi, Takeo ^a   Mitsuhashi, Norio ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Breast carcinoma; Complications

Indexed keywords

CATHETERS; DOSIMETRY; HISTOLOGY; MAMMOGRAPHY; ONCOLOGY;

BRACHYTHERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

IRIDIUM 192;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BIOPSY; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EARLY CANCER; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; TOXICITY; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIATION INJURIES;

EID: 0035341360     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)01541-8     Document Type: Article

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