500 kHZ intracavitary hyperthermia in the treatment of patients with cervical and endometrial cancer - Preliminary results and treatment description

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Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 403-406

  Piotrkowicz, Norbert ^a   Zieliński, Jan ^a   Łyczek, Jaroslław ^a   Dȩbicki, Piotr ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

^b GDYNIA MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Gynecological brachytherapy; Hyperthermia

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENERGY; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; GENERATOR; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MOLECULAR STABILITY; OBSERVATION; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION INJURY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 0036457229     PISSN: 0029540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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