Full-Dose Intraoperative Radiotherapy with Electrons during Breast-Conserving Surgery

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1253-1256

  Veronesi, Umberto ^a,g   Gatti, Giovanna ^b   Luini, Alberto ^b   Intra, Mattia ^h   Ciocca, Mario ^c   Sanchez, Daniele ^d   Zurrida, Stefano ^b   Navarro, Salvador ^b   Orecchia, Roberto ^e,f  

^a Office of the Scientific Director   (Italy)

^b Senology Division   (Italy)

^c Division of Health Physics   (Italy)

^d Anesthesiology   (Italy)

^e Division of Radiotherapy   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^g EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^h NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FIBROSIS; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EARLY CANCER; ELECTRON BEAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; ROBOTICS; SCAR; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0242443341     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.138.11.1253     Document Type: Article

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