Cesium-137 needle brachytherapy boosts after external beam irradiation for locally advanced carcinoma of the tongue and floor of the mouth

Brachytherapy

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 126-130

  Leborgne, Felix ^a,b   Leborgne, José H ^a   Zubizarreta, Eduardo ^a   Mezzera, Julieta ^a  

^a Centro Hospitalario Pereira Rossell   (Uruguay)

^b NONE   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Interstitial brachytherapy; Radiotherapy; Tongue and floor of mouth cancer

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BONE NECROSIS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDIBLE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TONGUE; TONGUE CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CESIUM ISOTOPES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0141454111     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1538-4721(02)00052-1     Document Type: Article

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