Maintained Salivary Function after Brachytherapy in Patients with Head and Neck Carcinomas - Evaluation Using Quantitative Salivary Gland Scintigraphy

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 684-688

  Murata, Yuji ^a   Zhang, Lin ^a   Ishida, Ryuji ^a   Aung, Winn ^a   Taura, Shin Ichi ^a   Hossain, Moinul ^a   Yoshimura, Ryo Ichi ^a   Hoshina, Masao ^a   Akaike, Hisahiko ^a   Sugaya, Takashi ^a   Shibuya, Hitoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGENS; DOSIMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

SCINTIGRAPHY;

ONCOLOGY;

CESIUM 137; GOLD 198; IRIDIUM 192; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; MALE; PAROTID GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SALIVARY GLAND FUNCTION; SALIVARY GLAND SCINTISCANNING; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SALIVARY GLANDS;

EID: 12244267715     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/028418602321028319     Document Type: Article

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