Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia after tangential beam irradiation to the breast: Discrimination from radiation pneumonitis

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 151-154

  Nambu, Atsushi ^a   Araki, Tsutomu ^a   Ozawa, Katsura ^a   Kanazawa, Masaki ^a   Ohki, Zennosuke ^a   Miyata, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a Kofu Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

BOOP; Breast conserving radiotherapy; Radiation pneumonitis; Tamoxifen; Tangential irradiation

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BREAST CARCINOMA; BRONCHIOLITIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BREAST TUMOR; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGE; RADIATION PNEUMONITIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036324928     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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