High dose rate brachytherapy in the management of lung transplant airway stenosis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 381-384

  Halkos, Michael E ^a   Godette, Karen D ^a   Lawrence, E Clinton ^a   Miller Jr , Joseph I ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b EMORY CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRONCHODILATATION; BRONCHUS STENOSIS; CASE REPORT; CAUTERIZATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT DISEASE; STENT;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRONCHOSCOPY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0042158456     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00466-1     Document Type: Article

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