A novel mobile device for intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT)

Onkologie

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 596-598

  Kraus Tiefenbacher, U ^a   Steil, V ^a   Bauer, L ^a   Melchert, F ^a   Wenz, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; X RAY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, ADENOID CYSTIC; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; REOPERATION;

EID: 0347987884     PISSN: 0378584X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000074158     Document Type: Article

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