Postoperative irradiation in localized renal cell carcinoma: The Rambam Medical Center experience

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Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 500-502

  Gez, Eliahu ^a   Libes, Michael ^a   Bar Deroma, Raquel ^a   Rubinov, Rafael ^b   Stein, Moshe ^a   Kuten, Abraham ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Linn Clinic   (Israel)

Author keywords

Postoperative radiotherapy; Radical nephrectomy; Renal cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GRANULAR CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; VOMITING;

EID: 0036879921     PISSN: 03008916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030089160208800613     Document Type: Article

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