External irradiation and intraluminal irradiation using middle-dose-rate iridium in patients with roentgenographically occult lung cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 965-971

  Fuwa, N ^a   Matsumoto, A ^a   Kamata, M ^a   Kodaira, T ^a   Furutani, K ^a   Ito, Y ^a  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

External irradiation; Intraluminal irradiation; Iridium thin wire; Roentgenographically occult lung cancer

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BRONCHOSCOPY; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; REMISSION INDUCTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035869706     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)01447-4     Document Type: Article

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