Radiological findings when very small lung volumes are irradiated in breast and chest wall treatment

Radiation Oncology Investigations

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 58-62

  Cazzaniga, Luigi Franco ^a   Bossi, Alberto ^a   Cosentino, Dorian ^a   Frigerio, Milena ^a   Martinelli, Adriano ^b   Monti, Angelo ^a   Morresi, Anna ^a   Ostinelli, Angelo ^a   Scandolaro, Luciano ^a   Valli, Maria Carla ^a   Besana, Giordano ^b  

^a SANT ANNA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Azienda Sanitaria Locale n 5 ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast irradiation; Late morbidity; Lung complications

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; SPIROMETRY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX WALL CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PNEUMONITIS; RADIOTHERAPY; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 13144294002     PISSN: 10657541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6823(1998)6:1<58::AID-ROI7>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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