High Dose Rate Brachytherapy for Nonmalignant Airway Obstruction - New Treatment Option

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Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1605-1610

  Brenner, Baruch ^a,b   Kramer, Mordechai R ^a,b   Katz, Alan ^a,b   Feinmesser, Rafael ^a,b   Brenner Weissmann, Alina ^a,b   Sulkes, Aaron ^a,b   Fenig, Eyal ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Airway stenting; High dose rate brachytherapy; Nonmalignant airway obstruction; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0142010527     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.124.4.1605     Document Type: Article

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