General Principles of External Beam Radiation Therapy for Skeletal Metastases

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 415, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages

  Frassica, Deborah A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ESOPHAGITIS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FATIGUE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION ESOPHAGITIS; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SKIN IRRITATION; SPINE SURGERY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0142250327     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000093057.96273.fb     Document Type: Conference Paper

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