Stereotactic radiosurgery for patients with cancer of the head and neck

Current Oncology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 164-169

  Gardner, Edward ^b   Linskey, Mark E ^b   Peñagarícano, José A ^b   Hanna, Ehab Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

CANCER SURVIVAL; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GEOMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; REVIEW; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; INSTRUMENTATION; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; RADIOSURGERY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 0642377714     PISSN: 15233790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11912-003-0105-8     Document Type: Review

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