Hyperfractionated 192Ir brachytherapy for recurrent retroperitoneal sarcoma: A technique for delivery of local tumor boost dose

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 118-122

  Classen, Johannes ^a   Hehr, Thomas ^a   Lamprecht, Ulf ^a   Zumbrägel, Andreas ^a   Bamberg, Michael ^a   Budach, Wilfried ^a  

^a Department of Radiation Oncology ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Hyperfractionation; Radiotherapy; Retroperitoneal sarcoma

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192; IRIDIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SICKNESS; RETROPERITONEAL SARCOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LIPOSARCOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RETROPERITONEAL TUMOR; SARCOMA; TIME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

BRACHYTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; LIPOSARCOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROPERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; SARCOMA; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037289843     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-003-0998-z     Document Type: Article

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