Significant correlation between rectal DVH and late bleeding in patients treated after radical prostatectomy with conformal or conventional radiotherapy (66.6-70.2 Gy)

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 688-694

  Cozzarini, Cesare ^a   Fiorino, Claudio ^a   Ceresoli, Giovanni Luca ^a   Cattaneo, Giovanni Mauro ^a   Bolognesi, Angelo ^a   Calandrino, Riccardo ^a   Villa, Eugenio ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conformal radiotherapy; Dose volume histograms; Prostate cancer; Prostatectomy; Rectal bleeding

Indexed keywords

ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BLEEDING;

DOSIMETRY;

AGE; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FOLLOW UP; HISTOGRAM; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ONCOLOGY; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0347928793     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(02)04117-2     Document Type: Article

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