Radiotherapy during pregnancy: Fact and fiction

Lancet Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 328-333

  Kal, Henk B ^a   Struikmans, Henk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M;

BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; COLLIMATOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS MALFORMATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PELVIS CANCER; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION SHIELD; REVIEW; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ABORTION, INDUCED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FETUS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RISK FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 17844390349     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(05)70169-8     Document Type: Review

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