The role of pulsed-dose-rate brachytherapy in previously irradiated head-and-neck cancer

Brachytherapy

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 158-163

  Strnad, Vratislav ^a   Geiger, Matthias ^a   Lotter, Michael ^a   Sauer, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Pulsed dose rate brachytherapy; Salvage brachytherapy

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; IRIDIUM 192;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NECROSIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0141783965     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1538-4721(03)00132-6     Document Type: Article

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