Medical malpractice and prostate brachytherapy

Brachytherapy

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 237-239

  Lee, W Robert ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125; ISOTOPE; PALLADIUM 103;

BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPENSATION; COMPETENCE; COURT; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; EDITORIAL; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EXPERT WITNESS; FISTULA; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; LAW SUIT; MALPRACTICE; NEGLIGENCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM ULCER; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; VICTIM;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; MALPRACTICE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 10644231954     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2004.10.001     Document Type: Editorial

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