Vacuum application increases therapeutic safety and allows intensified local radiation treatment of malignant soft-tissue tumors

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 124-130

  Kopp, Jürgen ^a   Strnad, Vratislav ^a   Bach, Alexander D ^a   Sauer, Rolf ^a   Horch, Raymund E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Flap surgery; Tissue preconditioning; Vacuum assisted closure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; SKIN FLAP SURVIVAL; SKIN INCISION; SOFT TISSUE CANCER; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE;

ADULT; BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACUUM; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 14644419560     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-005-1291-0     Document Type: Article

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