Transperineal High-Dose-Rate Interstitial Radiation Therapy in the Management of Gynecologic Malignancies

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 179, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 737-741

  Itami, Jun ^a   Hara, Ryusuke ^b   Kozuka, Takuyou ^b   Yamashita, Hideomi ^b   Nakajima, Kaori ^b   Shibata, Kouji ^b   Abe, Yoshihisa ^b   Fuse, Masashi ^b   Ito, Masashi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Complication; Gynecologic malignancy; High dose rate; Interstitial radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CARCINOSARCOMA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PERINEUM; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0242583901     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-003-1069-1     Document Type: Article

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