The use of the source-skin distance measuring bridge indeed reduces skin teleangiectasia after interstitial boost in breast conserving therapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 323-330

  Georg, Petra ^a,b   Georg, Dietmar ^b   Van Limbergen, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Breast conserving therapy; Interstitial brachytherapy; Skin teleangiectasia; Source skin measuring bridge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN SURFACE; SOURCE SKIN MEASURING BRIDGE; TELANGIECTASIA;

EID: 14844303795     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2004.10.010     Document Type: Article

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